Ego much?
Well, here's an object lesson in how one is never too old or too famous to be childish.
I recently had to reject a book review submission for being an incompetent hatchet job . . . though, of course, I phrased my evaluation much more professionally than that and, technically, gave him the option of revising or bowing out of the review. (Obviously, he took the latter option.) When I asked for the return of the $30 book, which the reviewer received for free, he threw a minor hissy fit and refused. Oh, just grow up, for Chrissakes.
UPDATE: Okay, I take back some of the attitude from the above post. We had a little bit of a back-and-forth email exchange afterward, and he remained professional, though he was still clearly hopping mad about our decision.
He also mentioned that asking for the return of a book was outside normal reviewing conventions, which might well be true, I suppose. My only concern had been that the publisher had given us that free book in good faith of having it reviewed, and I'd wanted to make good on that.
I recently had to reject a book review submission for being an incompetent hatchet job . . . though, of course, I phrased my evaluation much more professionally than that and, technically, gave him the option of revising or bowing out of the review. (Obviously, he took the latter option.) When I asked for the return of the $30 book, which the reviewer received for free, he threw a minor hissy fit and refused. Oh, just grow up, for Chrissakes.
UPDATE: Okay, I take back some of the attitude from the above post. We had a little bit of a back-and-forth email exchange afterward, and he remained professional, though he was still clearly hopping mad about our decision.
He also mentioned that asking for the return of a book was outside normal reviewing conventions, which might well be true, I suppose. My only concern had been that the publisher had given us that free book in good faith of having it reviewed, and I'd wanted to make good on that.
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