{"id":8077,"date":"2014-09-27T20:37:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2020-03-21T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T05:50:16","slug":"dont-do-this-ever-an-advice-column-for-writers-on-wednesdays-we-wear-pink-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8077","title":{"rendered":"DON’T DO THIS EVER (an advice column for writers): “On Wednesdays, we wear pink” edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

You guys know that I have absolutely no love for anti-blogger authors who treat the entire publishing world like their own personal version of high school, right?\u00a0So just wipe out everything in that sentence after “for” and replace it with, “Jamie McGuire.”<\/p>\n

Jamie McGuire. How do I even begin to explain Jamie McGuire?<\/p>\n

Jamie McGuire is a #1 New York Times Bestseller of contemporary romance. Or YA, if that’s the award she’s trying to win.<\/a>\u00a0She believes that if you don’t like her books, you’ve never lived a hard life.<\/a>\u00a0And that reviewers should focus only on the parts of a book they enjoyed, and that negative reviews attack the readers who enjoyed the book.<\/a>\u00a0(Screencaps from CuddleBuggery.com<\/a>) She writes books that sound even more horrifying than\u00a0<\/a>50 Shades of Grey.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>She’s also been known to whip her devoted readers into a frenzy to attack people who have criticized her, and it truly doesn’t seem to matter how many or how few followers these reviewers and bloggers have on social media. You got 300,000 readers? McGuire will go after you. You got 30? She’ll still be at your door.<\/p>\n

It’s no secret in the romance publishing world that McGuire and Jane Litte from Dear Author<\/a>\u00a0are never going to sit at the same lunch table. McGuire has accused Litte of being an opportunistic stalker, and Litte appears to get a kick out of poking McGuire. You get those stories from the links further up. So when news broke this week that publisher Ellora’s Cave was suing Litte and Dear Author, \u00a0readers saw through one of McGuire’s tweets:<\/p>\n

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In fact, she was so happy about the law suit, she tweeted again, hours later:<\/p>\n

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and again:<\/p>\n

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It turns out that her shade was about as obvious as a backfiring glitter canon, because everyone on twitter knew what she was talking about. The\u00a0Mean Girls<\/em> vibe continued on Facebook, where she and author Theresa Mummert celebrated with macros:<\/p>\n

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So, they’re childishly celebrating the misfortune of their enemies.\u00a0No harm there, right?<\/p>\n

Well… not really. Litte is being sued over her post,\u00a0“The Curious Case of Ellora’s Cave<\/a>,” in which Litte writes that while a number of authors and editors have not been paid (some for as long as six months), the company owner has publicly bragged of shopping sprees and started up several side ventures, and that while the company posted $15 million in revenues last year, tax liens and salaries are going unpaid. Ellora’s Cave responded to these concerns by slapping Litte with a lawsuit. Litte stands by the allegations made in her post on behalf of her anonymous sources.<\/p>\n

McGuire’s tweet opened a floodgate of responses from authors, readers, and bloggers who immediately knew exactly<\/em> what she and Mummert were talking about:<\/p>\n