Butcher talks some smack
Over in this thread on rasfw, Jim Butcher, renowned for being unwilling to spend two or three minutes on google to render Chicago accurately in his novels, gets cranky after someone comments on an upsurge of religious content in the Dresden novels.
It’s understandable. After all, it’s so difficult to find out any information at all about big time inaccessible author figures in today’s information society. Two or three minutes of research on Google is utterly unreasonable to expect of anyone. It’s only natural to move straight from that to public speculation.
Direct to Butcher’s response here. Butcher’s official site is here. Lay off the caffeine a bit.
Touche, and in Colbert-ian style, no less.
Though in my defense, my major Chicago gaffes predate Google by a couple of years.
My major issue with the post was with someone randomly publishing conclusions about my spirituality based upon ten year old fiction, when it would have been a relatively simple matter to, for example, drop me an email and ask, if he was truly curious. Since he hadn’t, when it isn’t exactly difficult to find me, I could only assume that he simply felt it appropriate to make statements about my spirituality based upon aforementioned fiction, and it annoyed me enough, at the moment I read it, that I didn’t feel like letting it go unremarked.
Jim
Comment made by Jim Butcher on August 30, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
I think you expressed yourself quite well, actually, except for opening yourself up for the Chicago poke. But the real problem is I don’t think that the grounds on which you have taken offense are reasonable. I tend to think idle speculation about the spiritual concerns of authors is not problematic. If, in the course of such speculation, he had done you specific injury I could understand it. But the question seemed perfectly harmless to me. Now, it is true, people aren’t publicly speculating on my religious background or positions, but I don’t know why they can’t.
Comment made by Redag on September 3, 2007 @ 9:55 pm