I cannot think of a more crass, stupid, pointless exercise in making yourself look inadequate than the one Lynn Shpeherd in which recently indulged. Who is Lynn Shepherd anyway? Why, that would be the well-known author (no, I'd never heard of her before either) who has made a name for herself by having a go at JK Rowling: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/lynn-shepherd/jk-rowling-should-stop-writing_b_4829648.html.
According to this article, the reason our Lynn isn't selling enough books is because Rowling has moved into the adult market, turned their minds to mush and turned them against more adult fare!
Apparently the consideration that her own writings don't appeal hasn't occurred. The idea that Rowling brought a whole generation of readers into the literary fiction market has passed her by. The concept of competition seems alien to her. At least, it does when a competitor has better name recognition and sales.
She suggest herself that this article will seem like 'sour grapes'; one rather suspects that is because that is exactly what this appears to be.
Her friends told her not to express this opinion in print and they were right. She sounds like an entitled, spoilt wannabe who should go away and work on her writing skills. Very, very, very, very few people will ever sell as many books as JK Rowling and being jealous of her success doesn't make a new writer seem all that appealing.
Time for Lynn to get a new pen name and start again, methinks!
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