I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
Webserial authors. The Internet and electronic “self-publishing” have completely transformed the way aspiring Authors break into a career writing full time, but there’s still a very elite classist divide between them and “traditionally published authors”.
Which is ironic, because many of the most revered historical figures from English literature originally published their works in weekly or monthly serials. Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Doyle and many more works including classics original in other languages.
Thank you for saying this. I am one of them.
True aloung side Brazil’s biggest autor Machado de Assis