Bookish Diversions: Publishing Troubles

Suicide Review-Bomber, Badreads, Literary Larceny, Publishing’s Future, More

¶ Suicide review-bomber. It’s hard enough making it as an author today without engaging in headline-worthy self-sabotage. The novelist-as-career option is, for instance, unrealistic for most writers; it’s tricky just getting a book deal. So when an author misbehaves egregiously enough to torpedo both their agent relationship and cherished publishing con…