Comments on: Monday Midday Links: Amazon Author Episode 915

By: Everything I Learned About Bad Author Behavior, I Learned from Laurell K. Hamilton | Bark: A Blog of Literature, Culture, and Art

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:04:23 +0000

[...] always another lesson to learn out there. As bad as Hamilton can get, it’s nothing compared to the meltdown of Candace Sams, author of floozy sci-fi romance Mr. Interstellar Feller. By “meltdown,” I mean the trainwreck [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:03:55 +0000

When you say: “updates for it's nook”
You mean: “updates for its nook”

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:56:18 +0000

Finally got to return the Kindle Book. Thanks to all who suggested it! Did not get to read it, but I think I’ll survive.

By: Genrewonk » Self-Imploding Authors, just add crazy

Genrewonk » Self-Imploding Authors, just add crazy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:03:31 +0000

[...] getting publicity out of this, by this point in the thread, people have mentioned links coming from Dear Author, e-mail lists, and other industry websites. It is a very popular trainwreck. A veritable [...]

By: Links of Great Interest 12/18/09 | The Hathor Legacy

Links of Great Interest 12/18/09 | The Hathor Legacy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:56:37 +0000

[...] Sams is en route to [...]

By: PixelFish

PixelFish — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:00:24 +0000

Yeah, don’t look now, but Night Watch is also the title of a Terry Pratchett Discworld book as well. And in one of the later books, a vampire specifically joins the watch. And I think “vampires and humans patrolling the night” is still pretty general enough as a premise. I mean, there’s Buffy, there’s Tanya Huff, there’s Pratchett’s vampires (which are hilarious), there’s so many vampires-working-with-humans stories that it’s no longer a subversive offshoot of the original lore, but a trope in its own right.

By: Somnopolis

Somnopolis — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:12:04 +0000

Well the premise is awfully similar as well. Vampires and humans patrolling the night etc.

By: Michael Z. Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:01:37 +0000

Titles get duplicated all the time. Not a problem.

Now, if she copied characters or other specific details…

By: Somnopolis

Somnopolis — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:59:21 +0000

I discovered a website set up by Sams for a vampire series titled, wait for it….Night Watch. Although it apparently has not been published.

Someone should give Sergei Lukyanenko a call.

By: Kate R

Kate R — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:25:35 +0000

Seems reasonable and really the only response they can give.

She hasn’t broken any laws and it’s not up to a publisher to squelch anyone’s free speech–outside of the material they publish, that is.

By: mahala

mahala — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:13:22 +0000

Sorry, the computer is fighting me. The above is from her publishers except for that last line which was supposed to be, there you go, Michael.

By: Michael Z. Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:12:12 +0000

Yeah, they basically don’t care unless it affects her sales.

By: mahala

mahala — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:11:00 +0000

Thank you for letting us know about this. Like any author and publisher, Ms. Sams
has opinions entirely divorced from our own, and we at Dorchester have neither the
time nor the manpower nor the right to police these. We like to think that comments
posted online will be weighed with the merit they deserve, and we appreciate that
readers will be wary of purchasing further (or any!) books from authors who engage
in indecorous behavior in any forum. At the very least, please be assured that we
neither solicit nor encourage any attack by our authors against readers or
reviewers. We hope that you judge each of our authors based on his or her own
individual works.

There you go

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:06:15 +0000

So, she can beat the shit out of you too! Cool.

By: ShellBell

ShellBell — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:01:08 +0000

This is her bio from the Dorchester website:

CANDACE SAMS (also writing as C. S. Chatterly) graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in agriculture. She worked as a police officer with the State of Texas, the San Diego Police Department, and in a teaching capacity for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. Candace is the senior woman on the US Kung Fu Team (three black belts), and has been awarded the Medal of Putien and the Statue of Tao by the Chinese Martial Arts Confederation in Quanzhou, China. She holds international martial arts titles, and is an award-winning fiction author.

By: Anon Y. Mouse

Anon Y. Mouse — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:20:32 +0000

@Kriss:

I did a few searches and the *only* reference to her ‘medal of putien’ she supposedly was awarded is…you guessed it, from her bios all over the place. If there is such a medal it is so sooper seekrit only she knows about it. The same for her supposed ‘statue of tao’ award. It does not exist according to every search engine I tried.

She appears to be completely making up her entire bio. I’d wager she’s also never been a cop, nor an ambulance anything, and the only kung fu she knows is Jack Black’s panda version.

Her editor at Dorchester is Chris Keeslar (the one she claims hasn’t been seen nor heard from for months on end)…what a waste of a hottie on this nutcase.

By: Michael Z. Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:42:42 +0000

Mahala : Can you copy?

By: dyserenity

dyserenity — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:06:34 +0000

@mahala Really? Lame. I’d think they’d not want to publish more of her work.

By: mahala

mahala — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:45:48 +0000

I e-mailed Dorchester AND called them. They sent me a nice little note disclaiming any responsibility to and for Sams.

By: Celine

Celine — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:06:09 +0000

Wow, Riley’s 3-for-3 on the Troll Bingo card! Bets on how long before we get the last 2?