have any of you read and enjoyed a book that you later found out was written by a complete a**hole? have you ever flat out refused to read a book just because you did not like the writer, or been more forgiving of someone of likeable character who wrote a book that would have been mediocre in your eyes if it was written by someone you didn't see yourself getting along with? i'm not really talking about someone who has done/said things that are morally and ethically wrong or criminal; the personality of the writer came across as so unpleasant to you that it clouded any "objectivity" for recognizing good work?
i have been reading up on AW about good books, even great books, who get rejected because the agent/publisher just did not know how to sell the idea. that's one thing. but then i read about authors who refuse to do interviews and stay completely out of the public eye, and for some of them, it forms a type of mystique that actually enhances the ideas they write about, or at least reception to those ideas. it makes me wonder if i could really just concentrate on the idea for my book, get feedback on how to hone and improve the story as a whole (such as in SYW), and then just avoid any type of publicity (if such publicity is actually requested?) like the less people know about me, the more receptive they would be to my ideas and stories, because then they wouldn't realize i am often characterized as being a b***h in the purest form ? is it simply that well-liked social beings are not just better received, but also get away with more crap, and loners like me only have to make sure that the focus stays on the book and the craft and little else? am i alone on this fear on your work possibly being rejected by the public because of you as a person?
i have been reading up on AW about good books, even great books, who get rejected because the agent/publisher just did not know how to sell the idea. that's one thing. but then i read about authors who refuse to do interviews and stay completely out of the public eye, and for some of them, it forms a type of mystique that actually enhances the ideas they write about, or at least reception to those ideas. it makes me wonder if i could really just concentrate on the idea for my book, get feedback on how to hone and improve the story as a whole (such as in SYW), and then just avoid any type of publicity (if such publicity is actually requested?) like the less people know about me, the more receptive they would be to my ideas and stories, because then they wouldn't realize i am often characterized as being a b***h in the purest form ? is it simply that well-liked social beings are not just better received, but also get away with more crap, and loners like me only have to make sure that the focus stays on the book and the craft and little else? am i alone on this fear on your work possibly being rejected by the public because of you as a person?