It& #39;s very telling that this is a white YA author shitting on a fellow YA author, a BIPOC, for hitting the bestseller list TWICE with "soulless IP" books and yet has no words to spare for James Patterson, whose book is #5 and was almost certainly ghostwritten. HMMM...

Anyway here& #39;s a great thread by a young, marginalized writer who actually understands what IP ("intellectual property," or existing franchises that hire outside writers—like when authors get asked to write new Star Wars or Doctor Who stories) entails: https://twitter.com/gildedspine/status/1293699457385664530?s=19">https://twitter.com/gildedspi...

I& #39;m sure I& #39;ve rolled my eyes at IP before, because I was a young, naive snob. But IP gave us Nancy Drew, which I was raised on. IP gave us the Daniel Craig James Bond movies, Spider-Man reboots, the MCU, novelty editions of Monopoly and Clue, Doctor Who Red Nose Day specials...

Artists who turn their noses up at intellectual property jobs hold elitist beliefs about ownership and originality, where ideas belong to the people who came up with the fragment of an idea, not the people who shaped them into something worthy to be shared. That& #39;s nonsense.

It& #39;s especially shameful for a writer to be perpetuating these views, because writers should know better than nearly anyone else that simply having an idea for a novel doesn& #39;t make you a novelist—it& #39;s the slow, hard work of writing that does that. IP writers put in the work.