News has gotten out to the publishing world about Ark Press and its poaching of high-quality talent from Baen Books, causing a reaction from several Baen employees and authors, including Larry Correia, who says he’ll “add to the freak out” with a new announcement of going fully independent with future book series.
The reaction of Corriera and others hostile to Fandom Pulse reminds me of Nintendo when those running the company are unable to maintain narrative control. Fandom Pulse is one of the few media outlets that provides any positive things to say and recommendations to read Baen Books. Weird and unproductive on their part. May Baen see continued success regardless.
It seems that some authors, good as they may be, can do a great job of muddying the waters, rather than being clear and concise (ironic, unless they're paid by the word.)
I got the impression that Larry Correia had a bit of an ego, but this really cements that he does. It's unnecessary drama. Cooler heads could prevail if we weren't at the mercy of wildly off-the-wall weirdness.
I hope Larry does well. I just wish he'd stop that head of his from growing beyond his shoulders. :) Ego will crush you eventually. And one will have only himself to blame for that. Good writer... stupidly strange person. (I guess that goes with the territory sometimes.)
*shrug* It's like high school all over again with some of these people. :)
There's an awful lot of straw men in those rebuttals, aren't there? Well, if Baen really is in trouble, time will tell. Arktoons was reporting here on substack that IDW is circling the drain, too. Again, time will tell if they can pull out of it.
I do appreciate your reporting on Thiel's relationship with Baen and Ark. Aside from the personal drama, this sort of industry information is important for us to know. So thank you.
Larry Correia was the founder of Sad Puppies. Vox Day proved his approach wrong when he started the Rabid Puppies, and I think he resents being shown up to this day. Your association with Vox just irks him. He's not nice and not honorable.
It's a comedy at this point how Jon's mere association causes the vapours. Even if you accepted his relentless and very effective shilling as annoying, it wouldn't warrant this kind of response.
What is even the point?
As things stand, this kind of backbiting isn't even going to effect his bottom line now!
Even people who feel repulsed by Christians as a vampire does garlic are using fandompulse in their videos and admitting its quality of reporting!
Jon Derangement Syndrome is clearly a terrible disease, we can only hope for a future cure and for nobody to utterly self-immolate over him.
Not just JDA. Witness Rich Meyer's (Comics Matter YT) constant posting about "Birthday Party Clowns" (Nerdotic, Critical Drinker). I can understand if people find their shtick old, but taking criticism (even cynical criticism) of pop-cult ephemera personally indicates an unhealthy attachment problem.
A lot of people's problems with the Nerdrotic and friends crowd is having expectations that were never going to be met. From people that wish them to be grand culture warriors to other desires, for the most part that bunch are just nerds who wanted good entertainment and can smell the stench of the defecation on their plates.
Most of them don't even aspire or pretend to be more than that.
People complaining about them picking at the corpses of the mainstream like vultures forget that being nerds, it was their stuff. From comics to film, that was their mythology, their culture.
Of all peoples, for better or worse, they have strongest claim to those ruined remains, the greatest cause for complaint, it is them, the fans.
While they aren't the unauthorized, on the whole they've been more good than bad. Sure, of course it would be best if they were all stout Christian cultural crusaders, or even if they supported more non-mainstream creation than they already do, but their voice is that of the scorned fan, no more no less.
They've handled themselves fairly well for a crowd of self-admitted retards.
Certainly whatever the downsides of them, they've still wounded the beast more than many of those who criticise them.
You're right that it's a similar kind of back-biting.
A complaint of succeeding wrong would be far more valid directed against pure ticket takers.
The reaction of Corriera and others hostile to Fandom Pulse reminds me of Nintendo when those running the company are unable to maintain narrative control. Fandom Pulse is one of the few media outlets that provides any positive things to say and recommendations to read Baen Books. Weird and unproductive on their part. May Baen see continued success regardless.
It seems that some authors, good as they may be, can do a great job of muddying the waters, rather than being clear and concise (ironic, unless they're paid by the word.)
I got the impression that Larry Correia had a bit of an ego, but this really cements that he does. It's unnecessary drama. Cooler heads could prevail if we weren't at the mercy of wildly off-the-wall weirdness.
I hope Larry does well. I just wish he'd stop that head of his from growing beyond his shoulders. :) Ego will crush you eventually. And one will have only himself to blame for that. Good writer... stupidly strange person. (I guess that goes with the territory sometimes.)
*shrug* It's like high school all over again with some of these people. :)
I'd be happy to interview him and have him on my live stream to talk his new projects!
The fact that he is just a wildcard would make it interesting, to be sure! Do let us know if you land him.. I wouldn't want to miss it. :)
Excellent news!
Larry is an egotistical paranoid wildcard that is prone to lash out rather than listen to any query or criticism.
We're not even criticising him. We wish him the best and millions of sales with his new venture.
There's an awful lot of straw men in those rebuttals, aren't there? Well, if Baen really is in trouble, time will tell. Arktoons was reporting here on substack that IDW is circling the drain, too. Again, time will tell if they can pull out of it.
The pettiness against Jon tars them as unserious people.
I do appreciate your reporting on Thiel's relationship with Baen and Ark. Aside from the personal drama, this sort of industry information is important for us to know. So thank you.
Larry Correia was the founder of Sad Puppies. Vox Day proved his approach wrong when he started the Rabid Puppies, and I think he resents being shown up to this day. Your association with Vox just irks him. He's not nice and not honorable.
It's a comedy at this point how Jon's mere association causes the vapours. Even if you accepted his relentless and very effective shilling as annoying, it wouldn't warrant this kind of response.
What is even the point?
As things stand, this kind of backbiting isn't even going to effect his bottom line now!
Even people who feel repulsed by Christians as a vampire does garlic are using fandompulse in their videos and admitting its quality of reporting!
Jon Derangement Syndrome is clearly a terrible disease, we can only hope for a future cure and for nobody to utterly self-immolate over him.
Not just JDA. Witness Rich Meyer's (Comics Matter YT) constant posting about "Birthday Party Clowns" (Nerdotic, Critical Drinker). I can understand if people find their shtick old, but taking criticism (even cynical criticism) of pop-cult ephemera personally indicates an unhealthy attachment problem.
A lot of people's problems with the Nerdrotic and friends crowd is having expectations that were never going to be met. From people that wish them to be grand culture warriors to other desires, for the most part that bunch are just nerds who wanted good entertainment and can smell the stench of the defecation on their plates.
Most of them don't even aspire or pretend to be more than that.
People complaining about them picking at the corpses of the mainstream like vultures forget that being nerds, it was their stuff. From comics to film, that was their mythology, their culture.
Of all peoples, for better or worse, they have strongest claim to those ruined remains, the greatest cause for complaint, it is them, the fans.
While they aren't the unauthorized, on the whole they've been more good than bad. Sure, of course it would be best if they were all stout Christian cultural crusaders, or even if they supported more non-mainstream creation than they already do, but their voice is that of the scorned fan, no more no less.
They've handled themselves fairly well for a crowd of self-admitted retards.
Certainly whatever the downsides of them, they've still wounded the beast more than many of those who criticise them.
You're right that it's a similar kind of back-biting.
A complaint of succeeding wrong would be far more valid directed against pure ticket takers.
Baen boomers not being boomers for five seconds, challenge level, impossible.