I read the article on Love and Consequences. No, I don’t think it would have been better to say the book was fiction because then she wouldn’t have sold it. I think that Margaret Seltzer, like most writers, knew how hard it is to get published and she thought the best way to do that would be by saying it was her own story, not a fictional one. I am not justifying her. She did a bad thing and now she’s paying for it. I just understand how frustrating it is to have to beat your own drum and not get noticed unless you do something like what she’s done. Also, if her own sister busted her, that tells me her sister doesn’t get along with her. If it had been my sister, I would have called her before calling the book’s editors. Eugenia Renskoff
Tags: getting noticed, writing
