It was years ago, and I'm not sure that that sort of publisher even existed back then. The thing however is that Arthurian hypothetical hystory books are among the safest sellers in the non-fiction field (although some of them strain the definition of non-fiction pretty heavily). I can understand a small publisher with a few dozen employees could not afford such a risk, but when I have subsidiaries of Macmillan or Viking Penguin telling me the same story, I have to ask them whether their marketing and publicity departments are for show only. But what the heck. It was only I who thought the damn book was any good, and I was probably deluding myself anyway.
I think you underrate the potential for retaliation on unwelcome critics. The amount of damaging lies that can be told online against someone, virtually without retribution and often without the victim even knowing, is immense; the internet is one enormous invitation to scheming, vindictive paranoiacs.
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Date: 2010-08-12 12:53 pm (UTC)I think you underrate the potential for retaliation on unwelcome critics. The amount of damaging lies that can be told online against someone, virtually without retribution and often without the victim even knowing, is immense; the internet is one enormous invitation to scheming, vindictive paranoiacs.