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[lliira]

While I often worry that some of my online stuff might have some kind of negative impact on me if I become a published author, Laurell K. Hamilton just posted a picture of her ass on her Facebook page. It is not a separate, private page. This is the one she talks about writing and promotes her books on. 

Really I just had to say that. Because why should I suffer alone. Who posts a picture of their ass on the social media they use for work?! Unless they're an ass model or something. 

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[guardians_song]

Please tell me you're joking.

...You aren't, are you?

Now I'M beginning to wonder if LKH's career is an elaborate masterpiece of trolling.

[quirkytizzy]

Truth, yo.

And if it helps, Illira, I think your writing is brilliant, and if it comes back to you later in a professional sphere, it'll be other people going "Hey, she had this bullshit figured out way back when. She's smart!"

[silveradept]

Not that it probably matters, except to some part of my brain that isn't explaining itself, but was it a clothed ass?

[lliira]

Sort of. It was swathed in red panties.

[silveradept]

...that's almost prompting the question "of what sort?" At the dance time, I'm just wondering why someone would allow that on their social media feed.

[duamuteffe.livejournal.com]

That is one good point about her social media - she makes me feel so much better about my chances of being published.

[lliira]

I do wish I could disinhibit myself to the extent she does. I keep getting myself tied up in knots because the stuff I'm writing doesn't match the perfection in my head, though logically I know of course it doesn't, it's never going to be actually perfect.

[duamuteffe.livejournal.com]

Well, judging from Affliction you could write in a continuous stream of consciousness without ever once going back to read what you wrote until you get a whole book's worth of repetition, spelling mistakes, and continuity errors (including changing a child's gender in the middle of a paragraph) and still get a book deal. So there's that.

[lliira]

If only I could write that way ;_;. I've never been good at free writing.

[guardians_song]

In all fairness, Hamilton already HAD a book deal and a following, and the publisher might have been more interested in taking the 'guaranteed' AB sales than in having any sort of dignity.

Though they do have some standards. Am I the only one who thinks they refused to take Shutdown for love or money?

[lliira]

Am I the only one who thinks they refused to take Shutdown for love or money?

Nope.

[beroli]

If LKH offered them her version of love to take it, I'm sure they ran away screaming.