lauren weisberger
According to Gawker, Devil Wears Prada author, Lauren Weisberger is seeking the help of her readers for book suggestions. Not suggestions on what to read, she is looking for suggestions on what to write! Now, here is the question, should she be looked down on for being unoriginal because she is “taking suggestions?” Or should she be commended for trying to stay in touch with her readers and their interests? Normally I am all about supporting authors and whatever endeavors fuel the creative process, but what really turned me off to Ms. Weisberger’s blog question was this statement.
As always, I invite you to write in with any story ideas. You’ll get zero acknowledgement (sic)/credit (and I’ll vehemently deny taking your idea), but if you don’t mind that, send away! xxx”
To me this is so off-putting that I almost feel like someone broke into her blog and wrote this because I can’t imagine an author wanting to come off in this light. Any thoughts?
Think maybe she was trying to be funny? But it didnt come off the right way??? It really was in poor taste on her part.
Maybe it was a joke. Good point!
One of the tough things about e-mail/comments … that we don’t have the tone of voice or facial expressions to judge the intent of the speaker/writer. Emoticons can go only so far!
Let’s hope it was meant to be funny (and just wasn’t carried out that way!)
I agree that it probably was just an unsuccessful attempt at being funny.
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