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Susan Gable said:I've heard them, too. I know of a friend whose writing mentor, on finding she'd sold her first romance novel, told her that was great as long as she was content whoring for the masses.
Everything being equal, I'd rather be a whore for the masses than a shill for uber-pretentious academics. That's just me though.
Of course I've rarely met an uber-pretentious writer who was actually published. The only writers I've known who were extremely pretentious were those who were unpublished.
On a brighter note, I just found out that an academic study I co-authored just got published in a peer-reviewed journal. That is satisfying.