@kyonshi …Anyway, what happened was that the Midnight Pals folks did an “episode” featuring a fake, kinda-German speaking Terry offering everybody soup. 😄
@kyonshi So I linked in my “Out of Ambit” post about how we told Terry about his ads; and then Neil linked to both of those, and after that (on Tumblr the next day) directly to yours. …It may therefore take a little while for all this to die down. 😏
And Neil G. Tumblr's is literally the most followed account on the platform, so his gaze is akin the eye of sauron, but nice. So expect a lot of action ... For weeks if not months.
@javi@dianeduane oh right now it already died down a lot. that article consistently pulls in higher numbers than the rest, but whenever Diane links to it it's like a tsunami.
One gets the feeling, with #Terry, that the real sticking point was that "the company would not promise not to do it again", but if they'd apologised and made that promise. Well, Terry would have probably quietly admired their chutzpah. The adverts would have had to stop, been apologised for, but he'd have probably let them keep the licence to print the books. Or maybe not. You never could tell with Terry.
@CrypticMirror eh, it was Heyne, I always got the feeling that publishing house was the stereotypical megacorp that didn't care about what editors or authors thought.
In fact I spent some interesting 30 minutes on the Frankfurt book fair listening to a group of Heyne executives dissing their current bestselling author who was having an author event at the other side of their stand.
(It was Dieter Bohlen, so nothing they said was likely untrue)
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