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Aren’t there enough readers for all of us?

By Mary Sutton / @mary_sutton73

506700126_6db0d2eadfBoy, there’s been a lot of drama in the writing world recently.

Last week, there was this post in The Huffington Post, which essentially asked J.K. Rowling to stop writing, adult fiction at least, to give other less successful writers a chance.

Before that, it was this interview with Isabelle Allende, in which she referred to writing a mystery as a “joke.” (Full disclosure: Allende has since apologized for her comments; since she’s not a native-English speaker, I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt.)

And none of it went down well. Continue reading “Aren’t there enough readers for all of us?”