apparently decided to mock me personally in an interview in a foreign magazine when he was on tour in Europe. A celebrated American author I’d never met and who had never insulted me in the U.S. I saw something similar happen in my own career, though without the feud. He regretted disparaging another author personally because it made him look bad and they became enemies. That’s what my mentor was trying to explain to me well before social media created firestorms. And what you say can end up on Twitter in seconds. I don’t make things up.Įven after a reading at a reception or a restaurant when things are more relaxed, I’m cautious, because whatever you say may travel much further than you expect and end up making you look bad. So I might focus on their most recent book and say I wasn’t convinced by the point of view if that’s one of the problems I saw, of course. If I do express an opinion, I keep the comments to something technical. I’ve been careful in my career not say much in public when fans ask me what I think about fellow authors if they’re not my favorite writers. He’d made that mistake and it launched a feud that lasted years. That’s what a famous author I deeply admired told me near the start of my career, and what he meant was personal attacks.
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