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An author shoots herself in the foot by being nasty

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This has gone around a Facebook site I belong to. It is all over X and BookTok as well.

The foot-shooting author has since apologised.
Ooops! Sorry. Didn't see yours before I filed mine, from Publishers Lunch and Bookseller.
 
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Apologies will make this kind of behaviour okay or repair the damage.
I read her apology letter. It reminded me of the scene towards the end of The Blues Brothers. Carrie Fisher has been trying to kill Belushi, and he is now grovelling in the mud in front of her. He starts listing all the reasons he missed their wedding, pulling out excuse after excuse. He gazes into her eyes and she melts, “Oh, Jake,” she murmurs ready to forgive him. He promptly drops her in the mud and leaves her again.

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