Ripped from the pages of Atlas: Not-so-successful author asks uber-successful author to "please stop."

Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 2 months ago to Books
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The British crime novelist Lynn Shepherd has found herself at the centre of a storm after she called on JK Rowling to stop writing because she has "had [her] turn", suggesting that other writers need "room to breathe".

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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Golden Pinnacle is next on my reading list and already on my Kindle and I will start it as soon as I finish One Second After.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 2 months ago
    Wonder if she ever heard of the "anti dog-eat-dog" rule?
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  • Posted by overmanwarrior 10 years, 2 months ago
    What a terrible statement. So she doesn't want to compete with JK. This is just a book. Think how many companies feel the same way and use government to stop competition. Nice example.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    To me, left is about using gov't to help good people, and right is about using gov't to punish bad people. I'd like to use less gov't altogether, but if I had to pick I'd rather focus on the positive and vote for people who at least talk about hope and positive change, so that makes me sort-of a leftwinger.

    The less-famous author has the flawed thinking of "there's not enough to go around". Intelligent left- and rightwingers should reject this thinking.

    Maybe there should be another spectrum about whether there's enough to go around: cornucopian vs Malthusian. I'm a cornucopian.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would like to know the kind of success Rowling has known, but that's not why I write.

    I write because I have need to tell stories. That I can make money at it would be a wonderful bonus, but, as the saying goes... "writers write".
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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 10 years, 2 months ago
    As an author who is still somewhat shy of my millionth book sold, I've got to say that half the fun and challenge of all this is figuring out how to get people to buy my book. JK Rowling was destitute when she wrote the first of the Harry Potter novels, and she didn't ask more established authors to move over. She wrote a good book that people wanted to read and the rest is history. By the way, for anyone who wants to get me closer to that millionth sale, my novel, The Golden Pinnacle, libertarian-themed and favorably reviewed by several Galt's Gulchers, is available on Amazon as either a book or Kindle. It is also available as a Nook book on Barnes and Noble. Links:

    Amazon paperback:
    http://www.amazon.com/The-Golden-Pinnacl...

    Kindle
    http://www.amazon.com/The-Golden-Pinnacl...

    Nook
    http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/The-Gold...
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    two things. 1. to think your sad sack plea would be heard 2. Huffpost printing your sad sack plea
    reminds me of parents begging principals to remove Ds and Fs from report cards because it's not good for self esteem
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  • Posted by richrobinson 10 years, 2 months ago
    I guess writing something more interesting is out of the question. Typical left wing response---I move up by pushing or forcing someone else down.
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