[ SECRET POST #3228 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3228 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/dcJ7H2w.jpg

[blitzwing]

Are you sure they're that badly off? I haven't researched him in depth or anything, but it seems like transitioning gave him a lot of happiness. I don't know about "BS voodoo supplies" but he seem's to enjoy working in the visual arts. It doesn't seem like he's miserable about it or just doing it for the money; God knows there's better ways to make money than by selling art.

[(Anonymous)]

The author is a HE. If you enjoy his books please respect him enough to use the right pronoun that he has asked people to use. I have been on a fringe of his friendship for years. Transitioning cost Billy a lot including his long time partner Chris but he is way happier and emotionally healthier then he has been in years. Yeah Billy might have money problems but so do a lot of cis people. And Billy is still finding his voice. I doubt he will ever go back to writing but who knows where he will end up. So back off OP give the kid a break.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I know him a little bit too, am friends with him on Facebook - we used to hang out IRL years ago. He's not doing that badly at all. Scrambling for money, but who isn't these days? He loves doing the art and the voodoo stuff (which isn't BS to you if you believe in it) and has a great partner now, so...

[beverlykatz]

Aw, good for him. I remember reading Drawing Blood and Triad years ago, and I really enjoyed them. Glad he's in a more or less positive place.

[(Anonymous)]

Possible the secret author truly didn't know. Not carrying their water, but PZB was pretty niche and the last I heard he was still struggling with gender.

Do kind of wish he'd just cash in the dollars and write another Ghost novel.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's hard enough to keep a career as an author going without alienating all your biggest fans in a public rant in which you call them "baby bats" and make fun of them. And in which you tell them you're never writing horror again and they better get used to it and stop asking for more vampire stories.

[(Anonymous)]

And don't forget, asserting that writing fanfic about their characters is the same as sexually assaulting their husband.

[blitzwing]

I think you're thinking of Diana Gabaldon there.

[(Anonymous)]

No no no, Gabaldon's weird metaphor involved people creeping on her daughter, not her husband.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds like something Laurel K. Hamilton would say. I guess it's all the same brand of crazy in the end.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you serious?

[(Anonymous)]

"Honestly, though, it's about more than money or whether I ever even see the stuff -- it's the fact that when someone else writes without permission about characters that are still very much a part of my life, it feels a lot like having someone sleep with my husband, or rather more like having someone sneak up behind him and stick a finger up his butt. They may mean it in a flattering way (because he does have a cute butt), and I may not have to look at it, but that doesn't make me feel a whole lot better, and it's not something I am ever going to get used to."

http://www.poppyzbrite.com/faq.html

[(Anonymous)]

What the fuck. This person sounds crazy.

[cenobitic_anchorite]

Well. It sounds like he knows he can't stop it and won't stop it, but that is some Anne McCaffrey level of misunderstanding there.

[(Anonymous)]

Naw, if it were Anne McCaffrey she'd be talking about tent pegs up her husband's butt.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the author's not exactly the poster child for mental stability. Before anyone loses their shit, I am NOT talking about being trans.

[(Anonymous)]

He recanted this and apologized years ago, though. http://fanlore.org/wiki/Professional_Author_Fanfic_Policies

[(Anonymous)]

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"...this would probably be a good time to mention that I used to be anti-fanfic (and personally squicked by the idea of people writing about my characters), but no longer am... people being inspired by your characters and wanting to play in your world is a pretty goddamn luxurious "problem" to have. It doesn't matter, it doesn't do harm, and the loss-of-copyright bugaboos that scared a bunch of authors (including me) some years back appear to have been inaccurately reported and (probably) wildly exaggerated. So I hereby apologize to everyone I've ever been a douchenozzle to about fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey that's pretty awesome that he came around and apologized for it. Especially considering there are some people who still hold on to their bias.

Good for him.

[(Anonymous)]

I wish him all the best as a person, but what I've read of his was pretty awful, so I can't say I'm missing him as a writer (although I read him as a teenager and it was ages ago). From what I've seen of his LJ/twitter, he still seems to be battling some demons, but it didn't strike me as something as helpless as the OP implies. It may all seem worse from the outside - people tend to hide their issues away, he is pretty open about them.

[shahrizai]

So 14-year-old Anne Rice and slash fangirl me heard about Lost Souls and Drawing Blood and decided to just order a bunch of his books online without reading the cover blurbs because they seemed right up my alley.

It was a quiet, snowy night right before Christmas when I cracked open Exquisite Corpse which gave me a fright! I'm surprised I had the balls to read the rest, but I definitely had this feeling of 'what the fuck did I just get myself into?'

[(Anonymous)]

I was the opposite: I read Drawing Blood and liked it; Exquisite Corpse made me want to bleach my eyeballs.

[localfreak]

I just did a small amount of research (as, although I have read this and one of his other books I didn't know anything about the author personally) and he seems okay really, I mean, yes, people have commented stating he's had some hard times but it sounds like he's had good things too.

It's nice that you worry about him and that his books touched you in a way that made you feel affection towards the author.