After spending weeks, months, sometimes years trying to perfect stories, why should we be invisible? It seems only fair that if a person has put their time amd energy into something, they should get rewards in return. However we may need to look at this from an audience’s point of view. Personally, if I am interested in a film (I know, different topic) that is an adaptation of a book, having the author lingering around it claiming that ‘it’s their baby’ doesn’t really do it for me.
If we take '50 Shades of Grey’ as an example, the mere
thought of E L James in the background, soaking up everything she can get is
enough in itself for me to throw in the towel before I’ve even glanced at the
cover. With this, and the news stories of her suing individuals for copyright
when the book was originally a fan fiction of Twilight, well, is quite frankly, laughable.
To me, it's quite off-putting as it reeks of desperation. Perhaps it is beneficial for the author to take to the side-lines. This isn’t
to suggest that everyone should. J K Rowling did it quite respectfully with the
Harry Potter series. Others maybe just need to know their place, in a sense. That’s not
what being an author is about after all.
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