If you’re an aspiring storyteller, here’s a hot tip that the Greeks just loved: add a dash of hubris to your protagonist. You know, just an insane sense of confidence, entitlement, a sort of “I-can-do-no-wrong-because-I’m-ME” kind of flair. And you have to make sure they’re blind to the error of their ways until it’s way too late, they’re just oblivious to the wrongness of it all until it all comes crashing down.

Well!

That said, let’s take a quick moment to talk about aspiring author Cait Corrain.

Look, it’s not easy being an author these days. It’s not easy getting a real publisher, not easy marketing books to people who like screens more. And someone can leave a two word review saying “it sucked” and totally tank your prospects.

So what are you to do? Well. If you’re Cait, you’re going to create a bunch of dummy accounts on Goodreads, the Amazon-owned book review website, and you’re going to leave yourself a whole bunch of good reviews on your soon to be released book. Who could blame you?

What? She did more than that? She bombed books written by others?

And her publisher dropped her? And Goodreads removed the reviews? And she first blamed a friend, then admitted it was her own doing?

Sounds. Pretty. Rad.

Oh, did her agent drop her too? YES!