22 things that really annoy authors - Elizabeth Kay
THESE BOOKS ARE THE GENUINE ARTICLES Pirated downloads of my entire trilogy - The Divide , Back to the Divide , and Jinx on the Divide . Get it free, complete with mistakes. Be put off the author for life. Emails from people asking for free books, preferably signed, because you obviously don’t have to pay anything for them yourself. People who come to a talk, and ask you to sign copies of books they’ve bought second-hand. They think you ought to be equally delighted that they managed to find a copy at a fraction of the list price. People who come to a talk, and ask you to sign copies of someone else’ s book. Kids who only want to know how much you earn, and whether you’ve met anyone famous. Teachers who think you have it so easy compared to them, and refuse to keep order when you’re doing a talk at their school – usually free of charge. Fortunately, many authors have been teachers in a previous incarnation. If you control the class better than the...