💥 Trainwreck Gloria Tesch / Sofia Nova - Author of the Maradonia series turned Republithot

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If she's still gonna self-publish, her infamy will give her more sales that she could get if she were an average young fantasy writer trying to promote and sell their mediocre self-published book. Nobody cares for self-published books, but people are interested in trainwrecks.
 
Burn Book said:
Nobody cares for self-published books
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There are some very good ones (among, naturally, a large pile of refuse, like isolated gold nuggets in a garbage dump -- which is basically what the internet is BTW...)

Actually, Marcel Proust initially had to self-publish "The Search for Lost Time" because every publisher told him: "Great work, but our readers won't be interested in your elaborating your thoughts while drifting off to sleep over 200 pages. No market for that."
 
For The Internet said:
Gloria never had a chance with her writing but it wasn't because of her parents, it's because she literally has zero talent. Having read the books it's safe to say no editor on earth could make something out of that.
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No way. I could chop out the extraneous parts, make a few dialogue changes, and make Seven Bridges (the original, not the 9/11 cut) a decent children's story. It would prob be like 100 pages max, but it's possible.
 
DykesDykesChina said:
There are some very good ones (among, naturally, a large pile of refuse, like isolated gold nuggets in a garbage dump -- which is basically what the internet is BTW...)

Actually, Marcel Proust initially had to self-publish "The Search for Lost Time" because every publisher told him: "Great work, but our readers won't be interested in your elaborating your thoughts while drifting off to sleep over 200 pages. No market for that."
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Yeah, but "self-publishing" back then was a very different thing than self-publishing in the era of the Internet. Nowadays self-publishing is an enormous pile of shit and the only people actually interested in buying self-published books (other than erotica) are other self-published authors. The very rare exceptions don't do much to the market itself.
I guess what I'm saying is, even if Gloria improved tremendously, she'd have a hard time being taken seriously. But her marketing shenanigans probably hurt her worse than self-publishing anyway.
 
The antishurtugal community on LiveJournal got wrapped up in all the original 'drama' after Tesch signed up with a sock account and started up trying to shill her book. She became pretty notorious within the group. If you go back through the archives there'd probably still be a few posts and comments from back then.

A few members of the community have kept everyone else updated from time to time on her more writerly exploits. Here's a few recent links with comments when her movie hit the scene:

http://antishurtugal.livejournal.com/913927.html

http://antishurtugal.livejournal.com/913713.html
 
Burn Book said:
If she's still gonna self-publish, her infamy will give her more sales that she could get if she were an average young fantasy writer trying to promote and sell their mediocre self-published book. Nobody cares for self-published books, but people are interested in trainwrecks.
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Depends on the book. One of my favourite writers (Victor Lewis-Smith) self published his last book, a compilation of his TV reviews for the London Evening Standard. Victor isn't a novelist though.
 
Venus said:
https://mobile.twitter.com/GloriaTesch/status/817912416906395649

Those highlights man
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i've seen this before

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