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** The fourth book, ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', doesn't feel like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book at all, instead focusing mostly on Arthur and his new love life back on Earth. This was jarring for fans, who had grown accustomed to Arthur travelling the galaxy as an UnfazedEveryman and who also found it unconvincing that Earth could be a setting after its [[EarthShatteringKaboom abrupt destruction in a bureaucratic tangle]] barely two chapters into the first book. Adams seemed to anticipate that fans wouldn't like the direction he was going, but he wanted to write something else, damn it -- so midway through the book, he snaps at the reader and tells them that if they don't like where the book is going, they can [[DontLikeDontRead skip to the end]] for a bit with fan-favourite character Marvin (but Marvin [[spoiler:dies, while actually kind of not depressed, having finally proven his usefulness by reading out God's final message to creation]]). The last line of the book reads, "There was a point to this story but it has temporarily escaped the author's mind" -- Adams once said that this was him "owning up".
** By contrast, the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', feels much more like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book. It's also a depressing, nihilistic book in which Arthur's RelationshipUpgrade in the previous book is [[BusCrash undone off-screen]], the Guide is taken over by ''really'' {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and EverybodyDies and Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes, essentially [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun making any more books impossible]]. Adams came to regret ending the series on such a depressing note and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed everything, but [[DiedDuringProduction sadly died before he could finish it]]. Bits of it were posthumously published as part of ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt''. The radio adaptation (as the "Quintessential Phase") also revised the DownerEnding to something more optimistic, although it's not entirely clear how much of that lined up with Adams' unfinished plans.
** By contrast, the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', feels much more like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book. It's also a depressing, nihilistic book in which Arthur's RelationshipUpgrade in the previous book is [[BusCrash undone off-screen]], the Guide is taken over by ''really'' {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and EverybodyDies and Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes, essentially [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun making any more books impossible]]. Adams came to regret ending the series on such a depressing note and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed everything, but [[DiedDuringProduction sadly died before he could finish it]]. Bits of it were posthumously published as part of ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt''. The radio adaptation (as the "Quintessential Phase") also revised the DownerEnding to something more optimistic, although it's not entirely clear how much of that lined up with Adams' unfinished plans.
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** The fourth book, ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', doesn't feel like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book at all, instead focusing mostly on Arthur and his new love life back on Earth. This was jarring for fans, who had grown accustomed to Arthur travelling the galaxy as an UnfazedEveryman and who also found it unconvincing that Earth could be a setting after its [[EarthShatteringKaboom abrupt destruction in a bureaucratic tangle]] barely two chapters into the first book. Adams seemed to anticipate that fans wouldn't like the direction he was going, but he wanted to write something else, damn it -- so midway through the book, he snaps at the reader and tells them that if they don't like where the book is going, they can [[DontLikeDontRead skip to the end]] for a bit with fan-favourite character Marvin (but Marvin [[spoiler:dies, while actually kind of not depressed, having finally proven his usefulness by reading out God's final message to creation]]). The last line of the book reads, "There was a point to this story but it has temporarily escaped the author's mind" -- Adams once said that this was him "owning up".
up". The book makes a cameo in an InteractiveFiction he wrote, ''{{VideoGame/Bureaucracy}}'', as unsold merchandise in a bookstore's bargain bin.
** By contrast, the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', feels much more like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book. It's also a depressing, nihilistic book in which Arthur's RelationshipUpgrade in the previous book is [[BusCrash undone off-screen]], the Guide is taken over by ''really'' {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and EverybodyDies and Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes, essentially [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun making any more books impossible]]. Adams came to regret ending the series on such a depressing note and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed everything, but [[DiedDuringProduction sadly died before he could finish it]]. Bits of it were posthumously published as part of ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt''.The Both the radio adaptation (as the "Quintessential Phase") and the sequel-by-other-hands ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'' also revised the DownerEnding to something more optimistic, optimistic (in different ways), although it's not entirely clear how much either of that them lined up with Adams' unfinished plans.
** By contrast, the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', feels much more like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book. It's also a depressing, nihilistic book in which Arthur's RelationshipUpgrade in the previous book is [[BusCrash undone off-screen]], the Guide is taken over by ''really'' {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and EverybodyDies and Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes, essentially [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun making any more books impossible]]. Adams came to regret ending the series on such a depressing note and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed everything, but [[DiedDuringProduction sadly died before he could finish it]]. Bits of it were posthumously published as part of ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt''.
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* Creator/DouglasAdams seemed to see ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' as this, likely due in no small part to his editor having to ''move in with him'' to make sure he met the deadline to get it published. The book makes a cameo in an InteractiveFiction he wrote, ''{{VideoGame/Bureaucracy}}'', as unsold merchandise in a bookstore's bargain bin.
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* Rosemary Tonks was a 1960s poet and novelist with a somewhat avant garde style, who then became a fundementalist Christian and believed that all books apart from the King James Bible were the work of Satan, her own most definitely included.
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* Ryder Windham, mostly known for his work on ''Franchise/StarWars'' books and comics, was hired as a freelancer for Franchise/{{Lego}}'s ''Toys/{{Bionicle 2015}}'' books and comics. While he didn't disown any of his own works, he did complain about the series' inept handling and the lack of creative guidelines. Half the characters he had to write for had no personality, gender or even [[NoNameGiven name]], and the story outlines he had to work into his second book contradicted the continuity of the first because LEGO failed to inform him about the story direction. When addressing these complaints to LEGO, Windham was told to sort them out himself.
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* Ryder Windham, mostly known for his work on ''Franchise/StarWars'' books and comics, was hired as a freelancer for Franchise/{{Lego}}'s ''Toys/{{Bionicle 2015}}'' ''Toys/Bionicle2015'' books and comics. While he didn't disown any of his own works, he did complain about the series' inept handling and the lack of creative guidelines. Half the characters he had to write for had no personality, gender or even [[NoNameGiven name]], and the story outlines he had to work into his second book contradicted the continuity of the first because LEGO failed to inform him about the story direction. When addressing these complaints to LEGO, Windham was told to sort them out himself.
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** King also showed no love for his "trunk novel" ''{{Literature/Blaze}}'' in an appearance before the National Press Club. He called it "an absolutely terrible novel," and speculated that publishing it instead of ''Literature/SalemsLot'' might have derailed his career before it got started (this was long before he revised ''Blaze'' and published it under his pseudonym Richard Bachman).
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** King also showed no love for his "trunk novel" ''{{Literature/Blaze}}'' ''Literature/{{Blaze}}'' in an appearance before the National Press Club. He called it "an absolutely terrible novel," and speculated that publishing it instead of ''Literature/SalemsLot'' might have derailed his career before it got started (this was long before he revised ''Blaze'' and published it under his pseudonym Richard Bachman).
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** Used InUniverse in ''Literature/{{Misery}}'', which is about an author who hates his popular character ([[DoubleMeaningTitle named Misery]]) and decides to kill her off. In fact, he hates her so much that he pens a short story about her [[BestialityIsDepraved having sex with her love interest's dog]] and circulates it among his friends for a lark. But then he gets badly injured in a car crash and is rescued by a BattleaxeNurse who isn't thrilled about Misery's fate and [[SavedByTheFans demands he fix it]]... [[ColdBloodedTorture or else]].
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* InUniverse: Sharyn [=McCrumb=]'s novel ''Literature/{{Bimbos of the Death Sun}}'' features an author who despises the series of cheesy ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian''-style novels to which he's become metaphorically chained by success and merchandising, all the while wanting recognition for his use of Celtic mythology in the books.
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* InUniverse: In Frank Stockton's short story "His Wife's Deceased Sister", the protagonist writes the eponymous novel, which is so wonderful that he instantly becomes famous. However, this work is a one-off, and it is so good that it sets an unrealistically high standard to which he is held; every other novel he submits is rejected, with the editors being insulted, thinking he is foisting his rejects upon them. Driven to financial ruin, he comes to regret ever writing his masterpiece, and must write under a pseudonym to make ends meet. Eventually, when he manages to write another masterpiece, he ends up destroying it, fearing that it will again ruin his career.
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* Creator/BrandonSanderson apparently once tried to write an epic poem in the style of ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' called ''Wyrn The King''--and it was pretty awful. Being rather self-aware about this, he made the poem an in-universe document in ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''--[[TakeThatMe as the national epic of the oppressive, theocratic Fjordell Empire]].
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* Creator/BrandonSanderson apparently once tried to write an epic poem in the style of ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' called ''Wyrn The King''--and it was pretty awful. Being rather self-aware about this, he made the poem an in-universe document in ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''--[[TakeThatMe ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''--[[SelfDeprecation as the national epic of the oppressive, theocratic Fjordell Empire]].
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** Alanna's romantic partners in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' quartet had a ''very'' 80's case of StalkingIsLove, especially George, the one she settled down with. On seeing its reviews by non-nostalgic readers, Pierce realized just how poorly that aspect had aged.
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* William Powell, the author of the original ''Literature/AnarchistCookbook'', released a statement on Amazon that expressed his regrets of writing the Cookbook and his desires to take the book out of print. The "recipes" in the Cookbook are outdated and any inevitably futile attempt to replicate the "recipes" contained can result in a hospital visit and possible felony/terrorism charges.
* Creator/HPLovecraft averted this trope by burning virtually everything he'd written when he was young. While notoriously dissatisfied with even his published works throughout his life, this one might've been a good call, as the few fragments which escaped the fireplace probably didn't deserve to.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein:
** His first novel, ''Literature/ForUsTheLivingAComedyOfCustoms'', was written around 1939. It was not published, and Heinlein attempted to destroy every copy of it. He failed. It was published posthumously in 2004. Some people think it would have been better had he succeeded. In this case, it was his younger self's ''politics'' that he was ashamed of, not his writing.
** In addition, of the short stories Heinlein published under the pen-name "Lyle Monroe," Heinlein requested that the "stinkeroo three" of "Beyond Doubt," "'My Object All Sublime'," and "Pied Piper" not be reprinted.
* Creator/TerryPratchett wrote ''Literature/TheCarpetPeople'' in his non-PC youth. His approach to this OldShame was to re-write and re-publish it to be in line with his current morals.
** He also wasn't too fond of the first ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book, revealed when he confirmed that the completely different Ankh-Morpork Patrician in it is the same character as Vetinari, just "written by someone much less talented".
** In his introduction to "The Hades Business", his first published short story, in the collection ''Once More With Footnotes'', Terry comments "Aargh. If I stick my fingers in my ears, I can't hear you reading this."
** He also expressed regret over not being able to completely rewrite the stories in ''The Dragons at Crumbling Castle'', all written when he was a teenager.
* A gem from Thomas Pynchon's introduction to ''Slow Learner'', a compilation of his early short stories: "My first reaction, rereading these stories, was ''oh my God'', accompanied by physical symptoms we shouldn't dwell upon."
* Flann O'Brien couldn't find a publisher willing to release his novel ''Literature/TheThirdPoliceman'', causing him to believe that it was no good and claim to his friends that he lost the manuscript. It was eventually published the year after his death and went on to become his most popular book.
* This was Creator/GeorgeOrwell's attitude toward his novels ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying'' and ''A Clergyman's Daughter'', which he wrote for mostly contractual reasons. He also destroyed several unpublished novels he wrote in the 1920s before he adopted the pen name of "George Orwell" (his real name was Eric Arthur Blair).
* [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Nasu Kinoko]] refuses to re-publish ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru - Witch on the Holy Night'' despite fan pleas to do so (since only five copies were ever made), mainly due to embarrassment over "bad writing". His feelings about other old works seem to be similar. He seems to have gotten over this in the case of ''VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight'' as it was released in the form of an all-ages visual novel in April 2012.
* Creator/StephenKing is ashamed of writing the novel ''Literature/Rage1977'' (written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) after its connection to several school shootings. It's since been taken out of print.
** King also showed no love for his "trunk novel" ''{{Literature/Blaze}}'' in an appearance before the National Press Club. He called it "an absolutely terrible novel," and speculated that publishing it instead of ''Literature/SalemsLot'' might have derailed his career before it got started (this was long before he revised ''Blaze'' and published it under his pseudonym Richard Bachman).
** He has expressed similar disdain for his science fiction tome ''Literature/TheTommyKnockers''. It was the last book he wrote before kicking a serious cocaine habit and he believes that his addiction was starting to show in his writing. He's referred to it as an "awful book" and that "within its 700 plus pages there's a potentially good 300-page novel." Fans tend to agree.
** In addition, don't expect to ever read his earliest novels ''The Aftermath'' (written when he was just 16) or ''Sword in the Darkness'', unless you pay a visit to the Special Collections section of the student library at the University of Maine at Orono.
* Creator/NealStephenson was fine with letting his first novel ''Literature/TheBigU'' stay out of print until people started spending hundreds of dollars for copies on eBay. He let it be republished because he felt the only thing worse than people reading the book was paying that much to read it. His later books don't list it in his bibliography.
* At a ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' convention in 2004, Creator/NeilGaiman was the guest auctioneer for a charity auction. One of the items was his first book ever published, a biography of the group Music/DuranDuran. He grew so embarrassed and ashamed of it while he was on stage that he temporarily passed the auctioneer duties over to Charles Vess because Neil said that there were simply some things that couldn't be sold in good conscience. Vess quickly attempted to run up the bidding price on the book by declaring that Neil would sign it if the bidding got over $1,000, which drew quite a [[BigNo horrified reaction]] from Neil himself. He later remarked that he was a little less ashamed of it after a chance encounter with Simon le Bon, who had exclaimed "Oh, we liked that one!" when Gaiman confessed to having written it.
* Edward "The Monkey Wrench Gang" Abbey's first novel, ''Jonathan Troy'', was published in 1954 in an edition of 5000 copies; he repudiated it at once, and it has never been reprinted. The cheapest copy currently available through Amazon Marketplace is priced at $749.99 (plus $3.99 shipping).
* Creator/DrSeuss was said to have destroyed the majority of his work because he was displeased with it. One notable book that was published posthumously is ''Literature/DaisyHeadMayzie'', which really wasn't up to par with some of his other work.
** Before that, he felt so much regret for the racist anti-Japanese cartoons he drew during World War II that he dedicated ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' to a Japanese friend, writing the story as an allegory for the US occupation of post-WWII Japan. Certain anti-racism activists attempted to bury his legacy just because of these drawings... to say they [[InternetCounterattack weren't met with a good response]] would be a ''massive'' understatement.
** In 2021, the Seuss Foundation chose to withdraw six titles[[note]] ''And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street'', ''On Beyond Zebra!'', ''If I Ran the Zoo'', ''Scrambled Eggs Super'', ''[=McElligot's=] Pool'', and ''The Cat's Quizzer''[[/note]] from publication because they contained racially insensitive imagery and text. Predictably, there were public cries of censorship and PoliticalOvercorrectness, even though it was the foundation themselves who voluntarily chose to withdraw the titles because they felt the titles were no longer appropriate for children.
* According to [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6359248/Noddy-returns-without-the-golliwogs.html numerous]] [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-books-noddy/noddy-returns-minus-golliwogs-to-mark-60th-year-idUSTRE59S3U720091029 articles]] made during [[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Noddy's]] [[MilestoneCelebration 60th Anniversary in 2009]]. Creator/EnidBlyton's daughters and granddaughters are [[ValuesDissonance deeply ashamed]] with [[BlackFace the Golliwogs]] who were recurring characters. In later editions, [[https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/author/illustrations/300wide+7366103.jpg scenes featuring]] them were [[https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/author/illustrations/300wide+8394269.jpg redrawn with goblins]], toy monkeys, and other toys.
* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' was an experiment on Creator/IanFleming's part. Unlike the other ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels, the book focuses on the BondGirl. Fleming grew to regret that move. When the producers of the [[Film/JamesBond film series]] sought the rights, [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe he only let them have the name]], preferring InNameOnly to having it brought to the screen. Interestingly, many Fleming fans consider it one of his best works, in large part ''because'' it departs so radically from his typical approach.
* Creator/PhilipPullman states on his website that he hates the first novel he ever wrote and refuses to even name it so people can't track it down. (It's ''The Haunted Storm''.)
* Lynne Cheney, wife of former US vice-president Dick Cheney, tried to convince the publisher of her 1981 novel, ''Sisters'', [[http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/29/cheney.lynne.novel/ not to reissue it in 2006]]. Given the sexual content (including a lesbian affair) of the book, she was afraid political opponents of her husband would use it to stir up controversy. In the end, ''Series/TheDailyShow'' ran with it, [[StreisandEffect mostly learning about it from her attempts to keep it secret]].
* Sergej Dowlatov, an emigrant from Russia, forbade all his work made in USSR from being reprinted. He then wrote a novel, ''Compromiss'', to show why (basically all of his previous writing was [[ExecutiveMeddling heavily modified]] by Soviet censorship).
* Creator/StanislawLem said that his first sci-fi novel, ''Literature/TheAstronauts'', lacked any value. The shame was not about its being sci-fi, but about its being Communist propaganda. He wrote it for the [[MoneyDearBoy money]].
* Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}, a British design studio who created famous album covers for bands such as Music/PinkFloyd and Music/LedZeppelin between [[TheSixties the late '60s]] and [[TheEighties the early '80s]], deal with this trope imaginatively in their retrospective book ''For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis''. In the introduction to the (nearly) complete list of their covers at the back of the book, they admit that "There are some designs we would rather like to forget altogether"; within the list, these are marked with an icon of a turkey.
* Creator/AlastairReynolds included an afterword in ''Galactic North'' admitting that his ''[[Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries Revelation Space]]'' novels are derived in part from a much more space-opera-ish set of unpublished novels which he devoutly intends should never see print, although he regards them as a valuable learning experience.
* Creator/DeanKoontz spent the seventies writing straight science fiction under his real name, and [[MoustacheDePlume several other genres including romance under various pseudonyms]]. Since becoming a bestselling author, he has refused to let many of these early novels be reprinted. One of the most infamous of these is ''Film/TheFunhouse'', a novelization of a decent but forgettable slasher flick, written under the pseudonym Owen West. The book was so terrible that when he was unable to prevent it from being republished under his real name, he wrote a lengthy introduction decrying how terrible the book is and about how he likes to imagine the life that particular pseudonym took on after its publication ending very violently soon after its completion (namely, trampled by wildebeests while on safari).
* Creator/OrsonScottCard refuses to reprint his short story "Happy Head" in any form, and urges his fans to "think of it as something written by an earnest young graduate student rather than anything I did."
* Saul Bellow burned the manuscript of his first, unpublished novel ''The Very Dark Trees'' and refused to divulge any details about it throughout his life.
* Nancy Mitford did not allow her third novel, ''Wigs on the Green'', to be republished in her lifetime--partly because the Fascism-praising heroine was based on her sister Unity, who had a self-inflicted bullet lodged in her brain when [[ThoseWackyNazis Germany]] declared war on the UK, and died a very slow, lingering death.
* Creator/DavidEddings - "I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it." He later burnt the unfinished manuscript for his pre-fantasy novel ''Hunseeker's Ascent'', a mountain climbing adventure, saying it was, "a piece of tripe so bad it even bored me."
* The introduction to "A Restoration of Faith" (the first story Creator/JimButcher ever wrote to be set in TheVerse of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'') is ''very'' much full of SelfDeprecation and Butcher mocking how sophomoric the story is and reflective of him having written it when he was a first-time college student. Additionally, Butcher has been very dismissive towards the first few novels in the series (''Literature/StormFront'' and ''Literature/FoolMoon'' in particular), and he has openly advised new fans to start with ''Literature/DeadBeat'' since he feels that it's the best entry point for new people to get into the books.
* Creator/BrandonSanderson apparently once tried to write an epic poem in the style of ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' called ''Wyrn The King''--and it was pretty awful. Being rather self-aware about this, he made the poem an in-universe document in ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''--[[TakeThatMe as the national epic of the oppressive, theocratic Fjordell Empire]].
* On March 17, 1994, Creator/DaveBarry wrote a jocularly profane message to a reporter who wanted to interview him and accidentally wound up [[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.dave_barry/browse_thread/thread/19a8044adbbce744/59f09d34ab7c8902#59f09d34ab7c8902 posting it to the Usenet group alt.fan.dave_barry]] instead of sending it by private e-mail. This became legendary around the Internet as the "Chuckletrousers" post. Several days later, the reporter, Michael Bywater, posted to the same newsgroup complaining that he had been forwarded 2,038 copies of the message and didn't want any more. This embarrassing incident is recounted in ''Dave Barry in Cyberspace''.
* According to anecdote, if you see Creator/HarlanEllison at a signing and innocently present a certain book[[note]]''Doomsman''[[/note]], he will destroy it and pay you for it.
* Boston poet Gelett Burgess wrote a poem in 1895 entitled "Purple Cow." Two years later, the poem's popularity prompted him to write a follow-up entitled "[[Quotes/OldShame Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue]]," which currently supplies the main page quote.
* ''Play Dead'' by {{Creator/Harlan Coben}} has an author's note in the beginning saying that it's his first novel, written in his early twenties, and also that, if anyone reading the note hasn't read his other books, to put this book back on the shelf in the bookstore and go buy one of them instead.
* Creator/MarionZimmerBradley wrote several of these, mostly in TheSixties, with titles like ''[[GirlOnGirlIsHot I am a lesbian]]'' or ''[[BrotherSisterIncest My Sister, My Love]]''. ''Warrior Woman'' also has a lot of fanservice with lesbians.
* In 1950 Creator/LouisLAmour was hired to write four novels about the western character Hopalong Cassidy as a tie-in with the very popular TV show. Since Hopalong was not an original character, restrictions were placed on him in order to align the books with the TV show. L'Amour was not happy with these stories and later in his career would deny ever writing them, even to his own family.
* Creator/MarkGatiss has ''The King's Men'', which is basically [[AuthorAppeal gay porn]] with much purple prose.
* Highly literary British author Creator/MartinAmis was putting together his first big hit, ''Money'', and was running short of cash. So he dashed off ''[[http://www.themillions.com/2012/02/the-arcades-project-martin-amis-guide-to-classic-video-games.html Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines]]'' - a guide to early arcade games... a distinctly ''odd'' guide to early arcade games. The book is [[CanonDiscontinuity mentioned nowhere in his biography]] and he doesn't talk about it. Ever.
* Years after it was published, Creator/SalmanRushdie looks back on his 1975 novel ''Grimus'' with disgust. The novel (about a Native American who tries to find the secret to eternal life) was critically acclaimed but remained a commercial failure. When asked about it, he said that, since this was his first novel, his writing style was undeveloped and virtually unlike anything he had written afterward.
* Whenever it's mentioned on his forum on [[Creator/BaenBooks Baen's Bar]], Creator/TomKratman always strongly recommends against reading his ''A State of Disobedience'', particularly as an initial introduction to his writing. It's not his first novel, as some think, but it thanks in part to ExecutiveMeddling by Jim Baen he identifies it as his weakest work.
* Israeli television host [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assi_Azar Asi Azar]] once hosted a short-lived satirical talk show named ''Talk to My Agent'' that [[TakeThat brutally poked fun at Israeli celebrities]], aided by his CloudCuckoolander 'agent' 'Miley Levy' (played by [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169342/ Dudi Cohen]]) and actress [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5197405/ No'a Wohlmann]] serving as a DumbBlonde 'reporter' of sort, and two actors doing impressions of various celebrities. One episode had Levy and Wohlmann telling him about the horrible thing that will happen to him at the end of the show, without telling him what it was... At the end, they told the audience of a page on [[http://stage.co.il New Stage]], a website for young and aspiring artists to publish their works, featuring Azar's 'incredibly premature' juvenalia. They even read a few lines from a poem of his and a few more from one of his short stories. They provided the address, at which Azar rejoiced, as he thought most people probably didn't write it down; Wohlmann, however, said that people could just Google 'Asi Azar' and 'New Stage' to find his works. Fortunately, Azar took it all in good sport. (And just in case you were wondering, his works weren't as bad as they tried to present them, but they've been removed from the site anyway.)
* One of Creator/JRRTolkien's earliest works was the poem "Goblin Feet," which exemplified the twee cutesy style of fantasy that the mature Tolkien abhorred. Of it, he said: "I wish the unhappy little thing, representing all that I came (so soon after) to fervently dislike, could be buried for ever."
* [[Literature/{{Silverwing}} Kenneth]] [[Literature/{{Airborn}} Oppel]]'s debut was ''Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure'', but the book is long out of print and is barely mentioned on his official website, while all his other books get their own page.[[labelnote:*]]The only other book to get this treatment is ''The Devil's Cure'', a thriller that is his only work for adults to date. Probably to avoid kids looking it up.[[/labelnote]]
* In an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], Creator/ArthurCClarke refused to reread ''Rescue Party'', not because he worried it was too bad, but because he worried it was too ''good'', and would make his work since feel uncomfortably stagnant. In a straight example, he eventually became embarrassed by the paranormal/mystical elements of ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd''.
* Creator/HenrikIbsen's collected works mark a gap in the years between 1850 (Catilina) and 1856 (Theatre/TheFeastAtSolhaug). In those years, he actually wrote ''three'' plays, which he later omitted from his collection. One of them, Theatre/StJohnsEve, is interesting because Ibsen turned his back on it after a hard {{critical backlash}}. He initially meant the play was good, but then his audience meant otherwise. The play in question was later {{vindicated by history}}, but not until 1978. The other two plays, ''Olaf Lilywreath'' and ''The Giant's Mound'', are also performed in later years.
* {{Averted}} by Creator/IsaacAsimov, who published as much of his early work as he could find (excluding his robot series and the ''Foundation'' series, both of which had already appeared in compilations) in a two-volume collection, ''The Early Asimov''. Some of it is pretty cheesy, and at least one story was so bad that this was its first publication. He also included notes about his stories for which he had lost the manuscripts, implying that he would have included them otherwise. He was uncomfortable with people calling ''Literature/Nightfall1941'' his greatest work, not because he thought it was bad, but because he wrote it at the age of 21, and he didn't like the implication that he peaked that early in a fifty-plus-year career as a writer.
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' has an InUniverse and {{MetaFiction}}al example: when the Pilgrim Dante encounters the adulterous couple Francesca and Paolo in Hell, they explain that they began their affair after reading romantic poetry about [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Gueneviere and Lancelot]]--poetry that Dante himself had written in RealLife. In other words, Dante was using his masterpiece condemning sin to condemn ''himself'' for having once glorified it.
* Don't say this trope applies only to (semi)obscure hated works. Believe it or not, Literature/HerculePoirot was this for Creator/AgathaChristie, who got tired of writing his novels, describing him in 1930 as "insufferable" and in 1960 as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep". However, since she saw how popular the character was, she felt the obligation to continue giving his fans more Poirot stories, which she did until 1975, one year before her death (albeit with a finale novel she wrote in the '40s in case she didn't survive the War). In particular, her Poirot novels ''The Big Four'' and ''The Mystery of the Blue Train'' were among her least favourites. She wrote them around the time of her famed disappearance and subsequent divorce in order to [[ContractualObligationProject fulfill the terms of her publication contract]], and it's clear that her heart wasn't in it. The former was more or less a set of incomplete short stories strung together with a loose overarching plot, while the latter was little more than an AdaptationExpansion of the short story "The Plymouth Express".
* Creator/PeterBenchley, the writer of the novel ''Literature/{{Jaws}}'' (its [[{{Film/Jaws}} 1975 film adaptation]] [[AdaptationDisplacement is better known now]]), regrets writing it, not because it was bad, but because the book and movie gave people [[ArtisticLicenseBiology a very bad impression of sharks]]. In RealLife, sharks don't like eating human flesh and rarely attack humans, with almost all attacks that do happen being a result of the shark mistaking a human for another animal that is in its diet, while animals like bees, cows, dogs, horses, and hippos kill far more people every year. However, the movie helped to create the stereotype that [[ThreateningShark sharks are vicious animals that prey on people]], which made people afraid of them and led to many sharks being killed. Benchley went on to become an activist for the conservation of sharks.
* As popular as Thomas the Tank Engine is, many stories in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' have fallen victim to this:
** The original text of "Henry's Sneeze" stated that Henry's "sneeze" of coal dust and soot left the schoolboys dropping rocks on trains "black as n***rs". Awdry rewrote this later in the 1970s after backlash in the press.
** Wilbert Awdry stated "James the Red Engine" to be his least favourite work due to being written hastily to meet a deadline.
** Christopher Awdry was unsatisfied with the book ''More About Thomas the Tank Engine''. The Awdrys had been pushed to publish more stories starring Thomas to coincide with the TV show and give it more adaptation material. Christopher Awdry found the final result rushed and disliked the final story "Drip Tank" due to the use of now outdated slang as a plot pivot. Noticeably "Drip Tank" is the only story of the book not adapted into a TV episode.
* Tony Schwartz, the co-author of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's 1987 memoir/advice book ''Trump: The Art of the Deal'', [[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all regrets having ever written it.]] He felt that his work on the book helped create the image of Trump as a master businessman and deal-maker that ultimately propelled him to the White House, even though Schwartz regarded him as a CorruptCorporateExecutive and a pathological liar who didn't belong anywhere near politics, and felt that he had to struggle to portray him in a positive light. In 2016, when Trump ran for President, Schwartz pledged all of his royalties from the book to liberal charities opposed to Trump's politics. When asked what ''The Art of the Deal'' would look like if he wrote it today, he responded that he would've titled it ''TheSociopath''.
-->"[[PolishTheTurd I put lipstick on a pig.]] I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is. I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the [[UsefulNotes/PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower nuclear codes]] there is an excellent possibility it will lead to [[WorldWarIII the end of civilization]]."
* Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh first gained notoriety as a pick-up artist with his controversial ''Bang'' series of books meant to serve as guides to getting laid in various countries, which were widely criticized for their dismissal of ideas of sexual consent. In 2019, upon converting to Christianity, he [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/25/can-someone-please-send-mushrooms-to-all-the-mens-rights-activists-out-there renounced]] his entire career as a pick-up artist, pulling the ''Bang'' books from his online store and banning members of his forum who attempted to discuss or promote the tips within them.
* As of 2018; the book ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kissed_Dating_Goodbye I Kissed Dating Goodbye]]'' is this to its author, Joshua Harris. Harris, in his early 20s at the time the book was released, promoted the return to courtship as an alternative to the modern dating system - which (along with the True Love Waits abstinence program that had begun not long before the book's release) popularized what became known in some circles as "purity culture" in evangelical Christian circles. However, Harris[[note]]who as early as 2007 expressed worries that some had taken what he wrote in a legalistic direction[[/note]] publicly rejected his writings to the degree of requesting the book be taken out of print; subsequently disclosing in consecutive weeks in July 2019 that he and wife Shannon[[note]]whose courtship and marriage were the subject of Harris' [[HarsherInHindsight 2000 follow-up]] "Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship"[[/note]] were getting a divorce and that Harris had rejected Christianity altogether.
* Creator/DouglasAdams seemed to see ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' as this, likely due in no small part to his editor having to ''move in with him'' to make sure he met the deadline to get it published. The book makes a cameo in an InteractiveFiction he wrote, ''{{VideoGame/Bureaucracy}}'', as unsold merchandise in a bookstore's bargain bin.
* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin came to regard some of her earlier fantasy and sci-fi works with a highly critical eye. Though always a feminist, her depiction of women in the first three ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' novels can be summed up with the in-universe maxim "weak as women's magic, wicked as women's magic," with no thought of actually questioning such attitudes--it was just genre convention, and the eighteen-year gap between the third and fourth books had a lot to do with her coming to grips with this. The fourth book onwards then turned to examining Earthsea's oppressive attitudes towards women. She also regretted treating "male" as always the default gender in ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness''.
* Creator/VCAndrews once said that before her first published novel ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'', she had completed several manuscripts, including one "so shocking and full of sex" that she hid it away for fear of what her family would think. Many, ''many'' fans suspect that ''Literature/MySweetAudrina'' was that book.
* Creator/JennaMoreci gives off the impression that ''Literature/EveTheAwakening'' has become this for her; while ''Eve'' is still mentioned on her website she never brings it up on her vlogs anymore (while frequently discussing and promoting her newer books) and she appears to have abandoned the idea of writing sequels. It also appears the book is no longer being printed; on Amazon you can only buy used physical copies or the e-book.
* The last mention of ''Literature/SaveThePearls'' on Victoria Foyt's website was in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190117040326/http://www.victoriafoyt.com/books/ 2019]]. Currently, all references to them in that section [[http://www.victoriafoyt.com/books/ have since been removed]] even though a book Foyt published before them is still listed. Whether Foyt has come to agree with her critics about the duology's UnfortunateImplications or simply knows the series hurts her reputation (especially since they were unlisted a year before she published her next book) is anyone's best guess.
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* Creator/HPLovecraft averted this trope by burning virtually everything he'd written when he was young. While notoriously dissatisfied with even his published works throughout his life, this one might've been a good call, as the few fragments which escaped the fireplace probably didn't deserve to.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein:
** His first novel, ''Literature/ForUsTheLivingAComedyOfCustoms'', was written around 1939. It was not published, and Heinlein attempted to destroy every copy of it. He failed. It was published posthumously in 2004. Some people think it would have been better had he succeeded. In this case, it was his younger self's ''politics'' that he was ashamed of, not his writing.
** In addition, of the short stories Heinlein published under the pen-name "Lyle Monroe," Heinlein requested that the "stinkeroo three" of "Beyond Doubt," "'My Object All Sublime'," and "Pied Piper" not be reprinted.
* Creator/TerryPratchett wrote ''Literature/TheCarpetPeople'' in his non-PC youth. His approach to this OldShame was to re-write and re-publish it to be in line with his current morals.
** He also wasn't too fond of the first ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book, revealed when he confirmed that the completely different Ankh-Morpork Patrician in it is the same character as Vetinari, just "written by someone much less talented".
** In his introduction to "The Hades Business", his first published short story, in the collection ''Once More With Footnotes'', Terry comments "Aargh. If I stick my fingers in my ears, I can't hear you reading this."
** He also expressed regret over not being able to completely rewrite the stories in ''The Dragons at Crumbling Castle'', all written when he was a teenager.
* A gem from Thomas Pynchon's introduction to ''Slow Learner'', a compilation of his early short stories: "My first reaction, rereading these stories, was ''oh my God'', accompanied by physical symptoms we shouldn't dwell upon."
* Flann O'Brien couldn't find a publisher willing to release his novel ''Literature/TheThirdPoliceman'', causing him to believe that it was no good and claim to his friends that he lost the manuscript. It was eventually published the year after his death and went on to become his most popular book.
* This was Creator/GeorgeOrwell's attitude toward his novels ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying'' and ''A Clergyman's Daughter'', which he wrote for mostly contractual reasons. He also destroyed several unpublished novels he wrote in the 1920s before he adopted the pen name of "George Orwell" (his real name was Eric Arthur Blair).
* [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Nasu Kinoko]] refuses to re-publish ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru - Witch on the Holy Night'' despite fan pleas to do so (since only five copies were ever made), mainly due to embarrassment over "bad writing". His feelings about other old works seem to be similar. He seems to have gotten over this in the case of ''VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight'' as it was released in the form of an all-ages visual novel in April 2012.
* Creator/StephenKing is ashamed of writing the novel ''Literature/Rage1977'' (written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) after its connection to several school shootings. It's since been taken out of print.
** King also showed no love for his "trunk novel" ''{{Literature/Blaze}}'' in an appearance before the National Press Club. He called it "an absolutely terrible novel," and speculated that publishing it instead of ''Literature/SalemsLot'' might have derailed his career before it got started (this was long before he revised ''Blaze'' and published it under his pseudonym Richard Bachman).
** He has expressed similar disdain for his science fiction tome ''Literature/TheTommyKnockers''. It was the last book he wrote before kicking a serious cocaine habit and he believes that his addiction was starting to show in his writing. He's referred to it as an "awful book" and that "within its 700 plus pages there's a potentially good 300-page novel." Fans tend to agree.
** In addition, don't expect to ever read his earliest novels ''The Aftermath'' (written when he was just 16) or ''Sword in the Darkness'', unless you pay a visit to the Special Collections section of the student library at the University of Maine at Orono.
* Creator/NealStephenson was fine with letting his first novel ''Literature/TheBigU'' stay out of print until people started spending hundreds of dollars for copies on eBay. He let it be republished because he felt the only thing worse than people reading the book was paying that much to read it. His later books don't list it in his bibliography.
* At a ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' convention in 2004, Creator/NeilGaiman was the guest auctioneer for a charity auction. One of the items was his first book ever published, a biography of the group Music/DuranDuran. He grew so embarrassed and ashamed of it while he was on stage that he temporarily passed the auctioneer duties over to Charles Vess because Neil said that there were simply some things that couldn't be sold in good conscience. Vess quickly attempted to run up the bidding price on the book by declaring that Neil would sign it if the bidding got over $1,000, which drew quite a [[BigNo horrified reaction]] from Neil himself. He later remarked that he was a little less ashamed of it after a chance encounter with Simon le Bon, who had exclaimed "Oh, we liked that one!" when Gaiman confessed to having written it.
* Edward "The Monkey Wrench Gang" Abbey's first novel, ''Jonathan Troy'', was published in 1954 in an edition of 5000 copies; he repudiated it at once, and it has never been reprinted. The cheapest copy currently available through Amazon Marketplace is priced at $749.99 (plus $3.99 shipping).
* Creator/DrSeuss was said to have destroyed the majority of his work because he was displeased with it. One notable book that was published posthumously is ''Literature/DaisyHeadMayzie'', which really wasn't up to par with some of his other work.
** Before that, he felt so much regret for the racist anti-Japanese cartoons he drew during World War II that he dedicated ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' to a Japanese friend, writing the story as an allegory for the US occupation of post-WWII Japan. Certain anti-racism activists attempted to bury his legacy just because of these drawings... to say they [[InternetCounterattack weren't met with a good response]] would be a ''massive'' understatement.
** In 2021, the Seuss Foundation chose to withdraw six titles[[note]] ''And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street'', ''On Beyond Zebra!'', ''If I Ran the Zoo'', ''Scrambled Eggs Super'', ''[=McElligot's=] Pool'', and ''The Cat's Quizzer''[[/note]] from publication because they contained racially insensitive imagery and text. Predictably, there were public cries of censorship and PoliticalOvercorrectness, even though it was the foundation themselves who voluntarily chose to withdraw the titles because they felt the titles were no longer appropriate for children.
* According to [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6359248/Noddy-returns-without-the-golliwogs.html numerous]] [[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-books-noddy/noddy-returns-minus-golliwogs-to-mark-60th-year-idUSTRE59S3U720091029 articles]] made during [[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Noddy's]] [[MilestoneCelebration 60th Anniversary in 2009]]. Creator/EnidBlyton's daughters and granddaughters are [[ValuesDissonance deeply ashamed]] with [[BlackFace the Golliwogs]] who were recurring characters. In later editions, [[https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/author/illustrations/300wide+7366103.jpg scenes featuring]] them were [[https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/author/illustrations/300wide+8394269.jpg redrawn with goblins]], toy monkeys, and other toys.
* ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' was an experiment on Creator/IanFleming's part. Unlike the other ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels, the book focuses on the BondGirl. Fleming grew to regret that move. When the producers of the [[Film/JamesBond film series]] sought the rights, [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe he only let them have the name]], preferring InNameOnly to having it brought to the screen. Interestingly, many Fleming fans consider it one of his best works, in large part ''because'' it departs so radically from his typical approach.
* Creator/PhilipPullman states on his website that he hates the first novel he ever wrote and refuses to even name it so people can't track it down. (It's ''The Haunted Storm''.)
* Lynne Cheney, wife of former US vice-president Dick Cheney, tried to convince the publisher of her 1981 novel, ''Sisters'', [[http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/29/cheney.lynne.novel/ not to reissue it in 2006]]. Given the sexual content (including a lesbian affair) of the book, she was afraid political opponents of her husband would use it to stir up controversy. In the end, ''Series/TheDailyShow'' ran with it, [[StreisandEffect mostly learning about it from her attempts to keep it secret]].
* Sergej Dowlatov, an emigrant from Russia, forbade all his work made in USSR from being reprinted. He then wrote a novel, ''Compromiss'', to show why (basically all of his previous writing was [[ExecutiveMeddling heavily modified]] by Soviet censorship).
* Creator/StanislawLem said that his first sci-fi novel, ''Literature/TheAstronauts'', lacked any value. The shame was not about its being sci-fi, but about its being Communist propaganda. He wrote it for the [[MoneyDearBoy money]].
* Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}, a British design studio who created famous album covers for bands such as Music/PinkFloyd and Music/LedZeppelin between [[TheSixties the late '60s]] and [[TheEighties the early '80s]], deal with this trope imaginatively in their retrospective book ''For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis''. In the introduction to the (nearly) complete list of their covers at the back of the book, they admit that "There are some designs we would rather like to forget altogether"; within the list, these are marked with an icon of a turkey.
* Creator/AlastairReynolds included an afterword in ''Galactic North'' admitting that his ''[[Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries Revelation Space]]'' novels are derived in part from a much more space-opera-ish set of unpublished novels which he devoutly intends should never see print, although he regards them as a valuable learning experience.
* Creator/DeanKoontz spent the seventies writing straight science fiction under his real name, and [[MoustacheDePlume several other genres including romance under various pseudonyms]]. Since becoming a bestselling author, he has refused to let many of these early novels be reprinted. One of the most infamous of these is ''Film/TheFunhouse'', a novelization of a decent but forgettable slasher flick, written under the pseudonym Owen West. The book was so terrible that when he was unable to prevent it from being republished under his real name, he wrote a lengthy introduction decrying how terrible the book is and about how he likes to imagine the life that particular pseudonym took on after its publication ending very violently soon after its completion (namely, trampled by wildebeests while on safari).
* Creator/OrsonScottCard refuses to reprint his short story "Happy Head" in any form, and urges his fans to "think of it as something written by an earnest young graduate student rather than anything I did."
* Saul Bellow burned the manuscript of his first, unpublished novel ''The Very Dark Trees'' and refused to divulge any details about it throughout his life.
* Nancy Mitford did not allow her third novel, ''Wigs on the Green'', to be republished in her lifetime--partly because the Fascism-praising heroine was based on her sister Unity, who had a self-inflicted bullet lodged in her brain when [[ThoseWackyNazis Germany]] declared war on the UK, and died a very slow, lingering death.
* Creator/DavidEddings - "I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it." He later burnt the unfinished manuscript for his pre-fantasy novel ''Hunseeker's Ascent'', a mountain climbing adventure, saying it was, "a piece of tripe so bad it even bored me."
* The introduction to "A Restoration of Faith" (the first story Creator/JimButcher ever wrote to be set in TheVerse of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'') is ''very'' much full of SelfDeprecation and Butcher mocking how sophomoric the story is and reflective of him having written it when he was a first-time college student. Additionally, Butcher has been very dismissive towards the first few novels in the series (''Literature/StormFront'' and ''Literature/FoolMoon'' in particular), and he has openly advised new fans to start with ''Literature/DeadBeat'' since he feels that it's the best entry point for new people to get into the books.
* Creator/BrandonSanderson apparently once tried to write an epic poem in the style of ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' called ''Wyrn The King''--and it was pretty awful. Being rather self-aware about this, he made the poem an in-universe document in ''Literature/{{Elantris}}''--[[TakeThatMe as the national epic of the oppressive, theocratic Fjordell Empire]].
* On March 17, 1994, Creator/DaveBarry wrote a jocularly profane message to a reporter who wanted to interview him and accidentally wound up [[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.dave_barry/browse_thread/thread/19a8044adbbce744/59f09d34ab7c8902#59f09d34ab7c8902 posting it to the Usenet group alt.fan.dave_barry]] instead of sending it by private e-mail. This became legendary around the Internet as the "Chuckletrousers" post. Several days later, the reporter, Michael Bywater, posted to the same newsgroup complaining that he had been forwarded 2,038 copies of the message and didn't want any more. This embarrassing incident is recounted in ''Dave Barry in Cyberspace''.
* According to anecdote, if you see Creator/HarlanEllison at a signing and innocently present a certain book[[note]]''Doomsman''[[/note]], he will destroy it and pay you for it.
* Boston poet Gelett Burgess wrote a poem in 1895 entitled "Purple Cow." Two years later, the poem's popularity prompted him to write a follow-up entitled "[[Quotes/OldShame Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue]]," which currently supplies the main page quote.
* ''Play Dead'' by {{Creator/Harlan Coben}} has an author's note in the beginning saying that it's his first novel, written in his early twenties, and also that, if anyone reading the note hasn't read his other books, to put this book back on the shelf in the bookstore and go buy one of them instead.
* Creator/MarionZimmerBradley wrote several of these, mostly in TheSixties, with titles like ''[[GirlOnGirlIsHot I am a lesbian]]'' or ''[[BrotherSisterIncest My Sister, My Love]]''. ''Warrior Woman'' also has a lot of fanservice with lesbians.
* In 1950 Creator/LouisLAmour was hired to write four novels about the western character Hopalong Cassidy as a tie-in with the very popular TV show. Since Hopalong was not an original character, restrictions were placed on him in order to align the books with the TV show. L'Amour was not happy with these stories and later in his career would deny ever writing them, even to his own family.
* Creator/MarkGatiss has ''The King's Men'', which is basically [[AuthorAppeal gay porn]] with much purple prose.
* Highly literary British author Creator/MartinAmis was putting together his first big hit, ''Money'', and was running short of cash. So he dashed off ''[[http://www.themillions.com/2012/02/the-arcades-project-martin-amis-guide-to-classic-video-games.html Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines]]'' - a guide to early arcade games... a distinctly ''odd'' guide to early arcade games. The book is [[CanonDiscontinuity mentioned nowhere in his biography]] and he doesn't talk about it. Ever.
* Years after it was published, Creator/SalmanRushdie looks back on his 1975 novel ''Grimus'' with disgust. The novel (about a Native American who tries to find the secret to eternal life) was critically acclaimed but remained a commercial failure. When asked about it, he said that, since this was his first novel, his writing style was undeveloped and virtually unlike anything he had written afterward.
* Whenever it's mentioned on his forum on [[Creator/BaenBooks Baen's Bar]], Creator/TomKratman always strongly recommends against reading his ''A State of Disobedience'', particularly as an initial introduction to his writing. It's not his first novel, as some think, but it thanks in part to ExecutiveMeddling by Jim Baen he identifies it as his weakest work.
* Israeli television host [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assi_Azar Asi Azar]] once hosted a short-lived satirical talk show named ''Talk to My Agent'' that [[TakeThat brutally poked fun at Israeli celebrities]], aided by his CloudCuckoolander 'agent' 'Miley Levy' (played by [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169342/ Dudi Cohen]]) and actress [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5197405/ No'a Wohlmann]] serving as a DumbBlonde 'reporter' of sort, and two actors doing impressions of various celebrities. One episode had Levy and Wohlmann telling him about the horrible thing that will happen to him at the end of the show, without telling him what it was... At the end, they told the audience of a page on [[http://stage.co.il New Stage]], a website for young and aspiring artists to publish their works, featuring Azar's 'incredibly premature' juvenalia. They even read a few lines from a poem of his and a few more from one of his short stories. They provided the address, at which Azar rejoiced, as he thought most people probably didn't write it down; Wohlmann, however, said that people could just Google 'Asi Azar' and 'New Stage' to find his works. Fortunately, Azar took it all in good sport. (And just in case you were wondering, his works weren't as bad as they tried to present them, but they've been removed from the site anyway.)
* One of Creator/JRRTolkien's earliest works was the poem "Goblin Feet," which exemplified the twee cutesy style of fantasy that the mature Tolkien abhorred. Of it, he said: "I wish the unhappy little thing, representing all that I came (so soon after) to fervently dislike, could be buried for ever."
* [[Literature/{{Silverwing}} Kenneth]] [[Literature/{{Airborn}} Oppel]]'s debut was ''Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure'', but the book is long out of print and is barely mentioned on his official website, while all his other books get their own page.[[labelnote:*]]The only other book to get this treatment is ''The Devil's Cure'', a thriller that is his only work for adults to date. Probably to avoid kids looking it up.[[/labelnote]]
* In an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], Creator/ArthurCClarke refused to reread ''Rescue Party'', not because he worried it was too bad, but because he worried it was too ''good'', and would make his work since feel uncomfortably stagnant. In a straight example, he eventually became embarrassed by the paranormal/mystical elements of ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd''.
* Creator/HenrikIbsen's collected works mark a gap in the years between 1850 (Catilina) and 1856 (Theatre/TheFeastAtSolhaug). In those years, he actually wrote ''three'' plays, which he later omitted from his collection. One of them, Theatre/StJohnsEve, is interesting because Ibsen turned his back on it after a hard {{critical backlash}}. He initially meant the play was good, but then his audience meant otherwise. The play in question was later {{vindicated by history}}, but not until 1978. The other two plays, ''Olaf Lilywreath'' and ''The Giant's Mound'', are also performed in later years.
* {{Averted}} by Creator/IsaacAsimov, who published as much of his early work as he could find (excluding his robot series and the ''Foundation'' series, both of which had already appeared in compilations) in a two-volume collection, ''The Early Asimov''. Some of it is pretty cheesy, and at least one story was so bad that this was its first publication. He also included notes about his stories for which he had lost the manuscripts, implying that he would have included them otherwise. He was uncomfortable with people calling ''Literature/Nightfall1941'' his greatest work, not because he thought it was bad, but because he wrote it at the age of 21, and he didn't like the implication that he peaked that early in a fifty-plus-year career as a writer.
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' has an InUniverse and {{MetaFiction}}al example: when the Pilgrim Dante encounters the adulterous couple Francesca and Paolo in Hell, they explain that they began their affair after reading romantic poetry about [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Gueneviere and Lancelot]]--poetry that Dante himself had written in RealLife. In other words, Dante was using his masterpiece condemning sin to condemn ''himself'' for having once glorified it.
* Don't say this trope applies only to (semi)obscure hated works. Believe it or not, Literature/HerculePoirot was this for Creator/AgathaChristie, who got tired of writing his novels, describing him in 1930 as "insufferable" and in 1960 as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep". However, since she saw how popular the character was, she felt the obligation to continue giving his fans more Poirot stories, which she did until 1975, one year before her death (albeit with a finale novel she wrote in the '40s in case she didn't survive the War). In particular, her Poirot novels ''The Big Four'' and ''The Mystery of the Blue Train'' were among her least favourites. She wrote them around the time of her famed disappearance and subsequent divorce in order to [[ContractualObligationProject fulfill the terms of her publication contract]], and it's clear that her heart wasn't in it. The former was more or less a set of incomplete short stories strung together with a loose overarching plot, while the latter was little more than an AdaptationExpansion of the short story "The Plymouth Express".
* Creator/PeterBenchley, the writer of the novel ''Literature/{{Jaws}}'' (its [[{{Film/Jaws}} 1975 film adaptation]] [[AdaptationDisplacement is better known now]]), regrets writing it, not because it was bad, but because the book and movie gave people [[ArtisticLicenseBiology a very bad impression of sharks]]. In RealLife, sharks don't like eating human flesh and rarely attack humans, with almost all attacks that do happen being a result of the shark mistaking a human for another animal that is in its diet, while animals like bees, cows, dogs, horses, and hippos kill far more people every year. However, the movie helped to create the stereotype that [[ThreateningShark sharks are vicious animals that prey on people]], which made people afraid of them and led to many sharks being killed. Benchley went on to become an activist for the conservation of sharks.
* As popular as Thomas the Tank Engine is, many stories in ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' have fallen victim to this:
** The original text of "Henry's Sneeze" stated that Henry's "sneeze" of coal dust and soot left the schoolboys dropping rocks on trains "black as n***rs". Awdry rewrote this later in the 1970s after backlash in the press.
** Wilbert Awdry stated "James the Red Engine" to be his least favourite work due to being written hastily to meet a deadline.
** Christopher Awdry was unsatisfied with the book ''More About Thomas the Tank Engine''. The Awdrys had been pushed to publish more stories starring Thomas to coincide with the TV show and give it more adaptation material. Christopher Awdry found the final result rushed and disliked the final story "Drip Tank" due to the use of now outdated slang as a plot pivot. Noticeably "Drip Tank" is the only story of the book not adapted into a TV episode.
* Tony Schwartz, the co-author of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's 1987 memoir/advice book ''Trump: The Art of the Deal'', [[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all regrets having ever written it.]] He felt that his work on the book helped create the image of Trump as a master businessman and deal-maker that ultimately propelled him to the White House, even though Schwartz regarded him as a CorruptCorporateExecutive and a pathological liar who didn't belong anywhere near politics, and felt that he had to struggle to portray him in a positive light. In 2016, when Trump ran for President, Schwartz pledged all of his royalties from the book to liberal charities opposed to Trump's politics. When asked what ''The Art of the Deal'' would look like if he wrote it today, he responded that he would've titled it ''TheSociopath''.
-->"[[PolishTheTurd I put lipstick on a pig.]] I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is. I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the [[UsefulNotes/PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower nuclear codes]] there is an excellent possibility it will lead to [[WorldWarIII the end of civilization]]."
* Daryush "Roosh V" Valizadeh first gained notoriety as a pick-up artist with his controversial ''Bang'' series of books meant to serve as guides to getting laid in various countries, which were widely criticized for their dismissal of ideas of sexual consent. In 2019, upon converting to Christianity, he [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/25/can-someone-please-send-mushrooms-to-all-the-mens-rights-activists-out-there renounced]] his entire career as a pick-up artist, pulling the ''Bang'' books from his online store and banning members of his forum who attempted to discuss or promote the tips within them.
* As of 2018; the book ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kissed_Dating_Goodbye I Kissed Dating Goodbye]]'' is this to its author, Joshua Harris. Harris, in his early 20s at the time the book was released, promoted the return to courtship as an alternative to the modern dating system - which (along with the True Love Waits abstinence program that had begun not long before the book's release) popularized what became known in some circles as "purity culture" in evangelical Christian circles. However, Harris[[note]]who as early as 2007 expressed worries that some had taken what he wrote in a legalistic direction[[/note]] publicly rejected his writings to the degree of requesting the book be taken out of print; subsequently disclosing in consecutive weeks in July 2019 that he and wife Shannon[[note]]whose courtship and marriage were the subject of Harris' [[HarsherInHindsight 2000 follow-up]] "Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship"[[/note]] were getting a divorce and that Harris had rejected Christianity altogether.
* Creator/DouglasAdams seemed to see ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' as this, likely due in no small part to his editor having to ''move in with him'' to make sure he met the deadline to get it published. The book makes a cameo in an InteractiveFiction he wrote, ''{{VideoGame/Bureaucracy}}'', as unsold merchandise in a bookstore's bargain bin.
* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin came to regard some of her earlier fantasy and sci-fi works with a highly critical eye. Though always a feminist, her depiction of women in the first three ''Literature/{{Earthsea}}'' novels can be summed up with the in-universe maxim "weak as women's magic, wicked as women's magic," with no thought of actually questioning such attitudes--it was just genre convention, and the eighteen-year gap between the third and fourth books had a lot to do with her coming to grips with this. The fourth book onwards then turned to examining Earthsea's oppressive attitudes towards women. She also regretted treating "male" as always the default gender in ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness''.
* Creator/VCAndrews once said that before her first published novel ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'', she had completed several manuscripts, including one "so shocking and full of sex" that she hid it away for fear of what her family would think. Many, ''many'' fans suspect that ''Literature/MySweetAudrina'' was that book.
* Creator/JennaMoreci gives off the impression that ''Literature/EveTheAwakening'' has become this for her; while ''Eve'' is still mentioned on her website she never brings it up on her vlogs anymore (while frequently discussing and promoting her newer books) and she appears to have abandoned the idea of writing sequels. It also appears the book is no longer being printed; on Amazon you can only buy used physical copies or the e-book.
* The last mention of ''Literature/SaveThePearls'' on Victoria Foyt's website was in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190117040326/http://www.victoriafoyt.com/books/ 2019]]. Currently, all references to them in that section [[http://www.victoriafoyt.com/books/ have since been removed]] even though a book Foyt published before them is still listed. Whether Foyt has come to agree with her critics about the duology's UnfortunateImplications or simply knows the series hurts her reputation (especially since they were unlisted a year before she published her next book) is anyone's best guess.
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* Creator/AnneRice, for a time, disclaimed her popular ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Vampire Chronicles]]'' series, as well as the connected ''Mayfair Witches'' series, due to converting to Christianity, but then she got over it after she denounced religion.
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* Creator/AnneRice, for a time, disclaimed her popular ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Vampire Chronicles]]'' series, as well as the connected ''Mayfair Witches'' series, due to converting to Christianity, but then she got over it after she denounced religion.religion (her son is openly gay, and much of Christianity is still unaffirming of queer people and identifies).
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** Alanna's romantic partners in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' quartet had a ''very'' 80's case of StalkingIsLove, especially George, the one she settled down with. On seeing its reviews by non-nostalgic readers, Pierce realized just how poorly that aspect had aged.
** After seeing how eagerly fans responded to WordOfGay characters like Lalasa and Tian, Pierce realized that it did queer fans a disservice to keep using HideYourGays and resolved that any such characters would have their sexualities plainly stated in her future works.
** Alanna's romantic partners in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' quartet had a ''very'' 80's case of StalkingIsLove, especially George, the one she settled down with. On seeing its reviews by non-nostalgic readers, Pierce realized just how poorly that aspect had aged.
** After seeing how eagerly fans responded to WordOfGay characters like Lalasa and Tian, Pierce realized that it did queer fans a disservice to keep using HideYourGays and resolved that any such characters would have their sexualities plainly stated in her future works.
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** He came to regret writing ''Literature/{{Rage}}'' because someone decided to [[LifeImitatesArt make life echo art]] -- even though art, in this case, involves [[AxesAtSchool students killing teachers]]. Current copies of ''The Bachman Books'' no longer feature ''Rage'' for that reason. Oddly, the short story "Cain Rose Up" can still be found in ''Skeleton Crew'' despite dealing with similar subject matter (perhaps it's different because the killer isn't treated as sympathetically).
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** He came to regret writing ''Literature/{{Rage}}'' ''Literature/Rage1977'' because someone decided to [[LifeImitatesArt make life echo art]] -- even though art, in this case, involves [[AxesAtSchool students killing teachers]]. Current copies of ''The Bachman Books'' no longer feature ''Rage'' for that reason. Oddly, the short story "Cain Rose Up" can still be found in ''Skeleton Crew'' despite dealing with similar subject matter (perhaps it's different because the killer isn't treated as sympathetically).
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* A mild example occurred with P.C. and Kristin Cast in regards to ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'' series (which P.C. wrote and Kristin helped edit). In the early 2020s, the Casts publicly acknowledged the criticism that the early ''House of Night'' books (which were first published in 2007) contained "a lot of slut shaming and other offensive and problematic language", with Kristin Cast referring to it as "cringeworthy and ignorant" in an Instagram post, and that they were working with publishers to revise future e-book editions so that this content was less prevalent.
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%% What is this supposed to be?* The writer of "Eyeless Jack", [=Azelf5000=], said on one of his blogs that he agreed that it was poorly-written and said, "Since Jeff has been removed, this should be off too." But, let's give him some points as the he took the deletion very maturely, and knew it wasn't the greatest story ever. Unlike the writer of ''VideoGame/SonicExe'', however....
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%% What is this supposed to be?* The writer of "Eyeless Jack", [=Azelf5000=], said on one of his blogs that he agreed that it was poorly-written and said, "Since Jeff has been removed, this should be off too." But, let's give him some points as the he took the deletion very maturely, and knew it wasn't the greatest story ever. Unlike the writer of ''VideoGame/SonicExe'', ''Fanfic/SonicExe'', however....
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** In addition, he regretted writing ''Literature/TheHobbit'' as a children’s book, since he felt that he contributed to the false idea that fantasy is only for children.
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* Charlaine Harris wanted to end the ''Literature/TheSouthernVampireMysteries'' with ''Dead and Gone'' but was effectively forced by her publishers to continue the series due to the ongoing popularity of ''Series/TrueBlood''. This, combined with the fact many fans confused the series with her books, resulted in her getting increasingly fed up with it. Some people believe this is why the final books were so harsh and against the characters.
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* Charlaine Harris wanted to end the ''Literature/TheSouthernVampireMysteries'' with ''Dead and Gone'' but was effectively forced by her publishers to continue the series due to the ongoing popularity of ''Series/TrueBlood''. This, combined with the fact many fans confused the series with her books, resulted in her getting increasingly fed up with it. Some people believe this is why the final books were so harsh and against the characters.
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* Creator/IanFleming was so unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he attempted to suppress it where he could. He blocked a British paperback edition (it was only published after his death) and only gave permission for the title to be used when he [[Film/JamesBond sold the film rights]] -- which is why [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe the movie]] is so very different, to the point where it had its own {{Novelization}}.
** Towards the end of his life, Fleming denounced most of his James Bond novels as "trivial piffle" and the title character a "cardboard dummy".
** Towards the end of his life, Fleming denounced most of his James Bond novels as "trivial piffle" and the title character a "cardboard dummy".
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* Creator/IanFleming was so unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he attempted to suppress it where he could. He blocked a British paperback edition (it was only published after his death) and only gave permission for the title to be used when he [[Film/JamesBond sold the film rights]] -- which is why [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe the movie]] is so very different, to the point where it had its own {{Novelization}}. \n** Towards the end of his life, Fleming even denounced most of his James Bond novels as "trivial piffle" and the title character a "cardboard dummy".
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* Creator/IanFleming was so unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he attempted to suppress it where he could. He blocked a British paperback edition (it was only published after his death) and only gave permission for the title to be used when he [[Film/JamesBond sold the film rights]] -- which is why [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe the movie]] is so very different, to the point where it had its own {{Novelization}}. Since the movie is generally regarded as one of the the best Bond movies in the series, or at least one of the best Bond movies of the Roger Moore era, this turned out to be not such a bad thing.
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* Creator/IanFleming was so unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he attempted to suppress it where he could. He blocked a British paperback edition (it was only published after his death) and only gave permission for the title to be used when he [[Film/JamesBond sold the film rights]] -- which is why [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe the movie]] is so very different, to the point where it had its own {{Novelization}}. Since the movie is generally regarded as one of the the best Bond movies in the series, or at least one of the best Bond movies of the Roger Moore era, this turned out to be not such a bad thing.
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* Creator/IanFleming was so unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he attempted to suppress it where he could. He blocked a British paperback edition (it was only published after his death) and only gave permission for the title to be used when he sold the film rights -- which is why [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe the movie]] is so very different, to the point where it had its own {{Novelization}}.
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* Creator/IanFleming was so unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he attempted to suppress it where he could. He blocked a British paperback edition (it was only published after his death) and only gave permission for the title to be used when he [[Film/JamesBond sold the film rights rights]] -- which is why [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe the movie]] is so very different, to the point where it had its own {{Novelization}}. Since the movie is generally regarded as one of the the best Bond movies in the series, or at least one of the best Bond movies of the Roger Moore era, this turned out to be not such a bad thing.
** Towards the end of his life, Fleming denounced most of his James Bond novels as "trivial piffle" and the title character a "cardboard dummy".
** Towards the end of his life, Fleming denounced most of his James Bond novels as "trivial piffle" and the title character a "cardboard dummy".
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* Ian Fleming was sufficiently unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that when it was [[Film/JamesBond adapted to film]], he licensed only the title and told the film producers to write an entirely new story. Since the movie is generally regarded as one of the the best Bond movies in the series, or at least one of the best Bond movies of the Roger Moore era, this turned out to be not such a bad thing.
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* Creator/JRRTolkien grew to dislike ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' mostly because of the extreme obsessiveness of its fans, saying they were "involved in the stories in a way that I'm not" and referring to them as "my deplorable cultus".
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* Creator/JRRTolkien grew to dislike ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' mostly because of the extreme obsessiveness of its fans, saying they were "involved in the stories in a way that I'm not" and referring to them as "my deplorable cultus". He also resented that his publishers demanded a sequel to ''Literature/TheHobbit'' rather than letting him print ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', which was much more dear to him.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate her most famous character, the fictional detective Literature/HerculePoirot. By 1960, she had been resenting him for many years, and famously described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep." She never stopped writing ''Poirot'' stories, though, as she considered it a duty to [[PanderingToTheBase give the public what they wanted]], but she was not above skewering the character in later years (usually through her AuthorAvatar, mystery writer-turned-detective Ariadne Oliver). Poirot did [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed off]]]] in ''Curtain'', but that one was written during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Blitz]] and Christie reasoned that, were she to die, she she may as well TorchTheFranchiseAndRun. After the war, she refused to have ''Curtain'' published until shortly before her death.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate her most famous character, the fictional detective Literature/HerculePoirot. By 1960, she had been resenting him for many years, and famously described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep." She never stopped writing ''Poirot'' stories, though, as she considered it a duty to [[PanderingToTheBase give the public what they wanted]], but she was not above skewering the character in later years (usually through her AuthorAvatar, mystery writer-turned-detective Ariadne Oliver). Poirot did [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed off]]]] in ''Curtain'', but that one was written during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Blitz]] and Christie reasoned that, were she to die, she she may as well TorchTheFranchiseAndRun. After the war, she refused to have ''Curtain'' published until shortly before her death.
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* Creator/IanFleming was so unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he attempted to suppress it where he could. He blocked a British paperback edition (it was only published after his death) and only gave permission for the title to be used when he sold the film rights -- which is why [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe the movie]] is so very different -- to the point where it had its own {{Novelization}}.
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* Creator/IanFleming was so unhappy with ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he attempted to suppress it where he could. He blocked a British paperback edition (it was only published after his death) and only gave permission for the title to be used when he sold the film rights -- which is why [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe the movie]] is so very different -- to the point where it had its own {{Novelization}}.
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* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in-universe, late in book #28 (''The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell''), when Qwill, Polly, Arch and Mildred are talking and Qwill brings up Gelett Burgess, then recites the man's retaliatory poem saying how much he was annoyed by the popularity of his fluff 1895 poem "The Purple Cow".
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** By contrast, the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', feels much more like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book. It's also a depressing, nihilistic book in which Arthur's RelationshipUpgrade in the previous book is [[BusCrash undone off-screen]], the Guide is taken over by ''really'' {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and EverybodyDies and Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes, essentially [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun making any more books impossible]]. Adams came to regret ending the series on such a depressing note and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed everything, but [[AuthorExistenceFailure sadly died before he could finish it]]. Bits of it were posthumously published as part of ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt''. The radio adaptation (as the "Quintessential Phase") also revised the DownerEnding to something more optimistic, although it's not entirely clear how much of that lined up with Adams' unfinished plans.
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** By contrast, the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', feels much more like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book. It's also a depressing, nihilistic book in which Arthur's RelationshipUpgrade in the previous book is [[BusCrash undone off-screen]], the Guide is taken over by ''really'' {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and EverybodyDies and Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes, essentially [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun making any more books impossible]]. Adams came to regret ending the series on such a depressing note and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed everything, but [[AuthorExistenceFailure [[DiedDuringProduction sadly died before he could finish it]]. Bits of it were posthumously published as part of ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt''. The radio adaptation (as the "Quintessential Phase") also revised the DownerEnding to something more optimistic, although it's not entirely clear how much of that lined up with Adams' unfinished plans.
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* Ryder Windham, mostly known for his work on ''Franchise/StarWars'' books and comics, was hired as a freelancer for Franchise/{{Lego}}'s ''Toys/{{Bionicle 2015}}'' books and comics. While he didn't disown any of his own works, he did complain about the series' inept handling and the lack of creative guidelines. Half the characters he had to write for had no personality, gender or even [[NoNameGiven name]], and the story outlines he had to work into his second book contradicted the continuity of the first because LEGO failed to inform him about the story direction. When addressing these complaints to LEGO, Windham was told to sort them out himself.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate her most famous character, the fictional detective Literature/HerculePoirot. By 1960, she had been resenting him for many years, and famously described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep." She never stopped writing ''Poirot'' stories, though, as she considered it a duty to [[PanderingToTheBase give the public what they wanted]], but she was not above skewering the character in later years (usually through her AuthorAvatar, mystery writer-turned-detective Ariadne Oliver). Poirot did [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed off]]]] in ''Literature/Curtain'', but that one was written during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Blitz]] and Christie reasoned that, were she to die, she she may as well TorchTheFranchiseAndRun. After the war, she refused to have ''Curtain'' published until shortly before her death.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate her most famous character, the fictional detective Literature/HerculePoirot. By 1960, she had been resenting him for many years, and famously described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep." She never stopped writing ''Poirot'' stories, though, as she considered it a duty to [[PanderingToTheBase give the public what they wanted]], but she was not above skewering the character in later years (usually through her AuthorAvatar, mystery writer-turned-detective Ariadne Oliver). Poirot did [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed off]]]] in ''Literature/Curtain'', ''Curtain'', but that one was written during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Blitz]] and Christie reasoned that, were she to die, she she may as well TorchTheFranchiseAndRun. After the war, she refused to have ''Curtain'' published until shortly before her death.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate her most famous character, the fictional detective Literature/HerculePoirot. In 1960, she had been resenting him for ''decades'' and famously called him a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep." She never stopped writing ''Poirot'' stories, as she considered it a duty to [[PanderingToTheBase give the public what they wanted]], but she was not above skewering the character in later years (usually through her AuthorAvatar, mystery writer-turned-detective Ariadne Oliver). Poirot did [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed off]]]] in ''Curtain'', but that one was written during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Blitz]] and Christie was thinking that if she didn't survive it, she may as well TorchTheFranchiseAndRun; it was eventually published just before she died.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate her most famous character, the fictional detective Literature/HerculePoirot. In By 1960, she had been resenting him for ''decades'' many years, and famously called described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep." She never stopped writing ''Poirot'' stories, though, as she considered it a duty to [[PanderingToTheBase give the public what they wanted]], but she was not above skewering the character in later years (usually through her AuthorAvatar, mystery writer-turned-detective Ariadne Oliver). Poirot did [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed off]]]] in ''Curtain'', ''Literature/Curtain'', but that one was written during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Blitz]] and Christie was thinking that if reasoned that, were she didn't survive it, to die, she she may as well TorchTheFranchiseAndRun; it was eventually TorchTheFranchiseAndRun. After the war, she refused to have ''Curtain'' published just until shortly before she died.her death.
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* Gelett Burgess's exasperation over the popularity of his fluff 1895 poem "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Cow The Purple Cow]]". So much so he eventually wrote... you guessed it... a retaliatory poem.
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* Gelett Burgess's exasperation Burgess was so exasperated over the popularity of his fluff 1895 poem "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Cow The Purple Cow]]". So much so Cow]]" that he eventually wrote... you guessed it...wrote... a retaliatory poem.
-->Ah, -->''Ah, yes, I wrote the "''Purple Cow''"—\\"Purple Cow"—\\
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* This trope is part of the reason Creator/ArthurConanDoyle was led to kill off Franchise/SherlockHolmes, who overshadowed all of his other writings. To quote a letter that Doyle sent a friend after "The Final Problem":
-->Holmes is dead and damned! I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards paté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this day.
** As you may be aware, [[ItWasHisSled Doyle eventually went on writing Holmes stories.]] He suffered a staggering amount of fan backlash (even his mother was outraged), and when ''Punch'' eventually offered him a staggering sum to return to writing the character, he relented.
* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate the famed fictional detective she created, Literature/HerculePoirot. To quote Wiki/TheOtherWiki: "By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot 'insufferable' and by 1960, she felt that he was a 'detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep'. Yet the public loved him, and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot." She would eventually tweak Poirot through one of her other characters, Ariadne Oliver, who was a mystery-writer turned detective. (Yes, Ariadne's an AuthorAvatar; yes, she exists; no, we don't blame you for not knowing that.) Unlike Doyle, Christie never got over it; just before she died, she released ''Curtain,'' a novel she had written years ago, in which [[spoiler:Poirot was [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed off]]]].
** She may have [[spoiler:killed off Poirot]] in ''Curtain'' in part because she found him intolerable, but another reason was to prevent another author from taking over the Poirot series if she died during World War II. She began the book during the Blitz, when nobody in London knew if they'd survive.
** But the 2014 release of ''The Monogram Murders'' by a ghostwriter proved that even AuthorExistenceFailure couldn't bring an end to Poirot works.
* Some tales in Literature/TheBible, such as Noah's Ark, can be interpreted as God having a backlash against humans, especially because of the HumansAreBastards trope.
-->Holmes is dead and damned! I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards paté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this day.
** As you may be aware, [[ItWasHisSled Doyle eventually went on writing Holmes stories.]] He suffered a staggering amount of fan backlash (even his mother was outraged), and when ''Punch'' eventually offered him a staggering sum to return to writing the character, he relented.
* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate the famed fictional detective she created, Literature/HerculePoirot. To quote Wiki/TheOtherWiki: "By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot 'insufferable' and by 1960, she felt that he was a 'detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep'. Yet the public loved him, and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot." She would eventually tweak Poirot through one of her other characters, Ariadne Oliver, who was a mystery-writer turned detective. (Yes, Ariadne's an AuthorAvatar; yes, she exists; no, we don't blame you for not knowing that.) Unlike Doyle, Christie never got over it; just before she died, she released ''Curtain,'' a novel she had written years ago, in which [[spoiler:Poirot was [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed off]]]].
** She may have [[spoiler:killed off Poirot]] in ''Curtain'' in part because she found him intolerable, but another reason was to prevent another author from taking over the Poirot series if she died during World War II. She began the book during the Blitz, when nobody in London knew if they'd survive.
** But the 2014 release of ''The Monogram Murders'' by a ghostwriter proved that even AuthorExistenceFailure couldn't bring an end to Poirot works.
* Some tales in Literature/TheBible, such as Noah's Ark, can be interpreted as God having a backlash against humans, especially because of the HumansAreBastards trope.
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* This trope is part of the reason Creator/ArthurConanDoyle was led grew to kill off resent Franchise/SherlockHolmes, who overshadowed all of his other writings. To quote writings, so he [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed him off]] in ''The Final Problem'' (as we [[ItWasHisSled all know by now]]). Unfortunately for Doyle, he suffered such a staggering amount of [[HesJustHiding fan backlash]] (including from his own mother) that when ''Punch'' offered him an equally staggering sum to return to writing the character, he relented (as we ''also'' all know by now). He never really got over having to keep writing ''Sherlock Holmes'' stories, and his attitude is best exemplified by a letter that Doyle he sent to a friend after "The writing ''The Final Problem":
-->HolmesProblem'':
-->"Holmes is dead and damned! I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards paté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to thisday.
** As you may be aware, [[ItWasHisSled Doyle eventually went on writing Holmes stories.]] He suffered a staggering amount of fan backlash (even his mother was outraged), and when ''Punch'' eventually offered him a staggering sum to return to writing the character, he relented.
day."
* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate her most famous character, thefamed fictional detective she created, Literature/HerculePoirot. To quote Wiki/TheOtherWiki: "By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot 'insufferable' and by In 1960, she felt that he was had been resenting him for ''decades'' and famously called him a 'detestable, "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep'. Yet creep." She never stopped writing ''Poirot'' stories, as she considered it a duty to [[PanderingToTheBase give the public loved him, what they wanted]], but she was not above skewering the character in later years (usually through her AuthorAvatar, mystery writer-turned-detective Ariadne Oliver). Poirot did [[spoiler:[[DroppedABridgeOnHim get killed off]]]] in ''Curtain'', but that one was written during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Blitz]] and Christie refused to kill him off, claiming was thinking that if she didn't survive it, she may as well TorchTheFranchiseAndRun; it was her duty to produce what the public liked, and what the public liked was Poirot." She would eventually tweak Poirot through one of her other characters, Ariadne Oliver, who was a mystery-writer turned detective. (Yes, Ariadne's an AuthorAvatar; yes, she exists; no, we don't blame you for not knowing that.) Unlike Doyle, Christie never got over it; published just before she died, she released ''Curtain,'' a novel she had written years ago, in which [[spoiler:Poirot was [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed off]]]].
** She may have [[spoiler:killed off Poirot]] in ''Curtain'' in part because she found him intolerable, but another reason was to prevent another author from taking over the Poirot series if she died during World War II. She began the book during the Blitz, when nobody in London knew if they'd survive.
** But the 2014 release of ''The Monogram Murders'' by a ghostwriter proved that even AuthorExistenceFailure couldn't bring an end to Poirot works.
* Some tales in Literature/TheBible, such as Noah's Ark, can be interpreted as God having a backlash against humans, especially because of the HumansAreBastards trope.died.
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-->"Holmes is dead and damned! I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards paté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this
** As you may be aware, [[ItWasHisSled Doyle eventually went on writing Holmes stories.]] He suffered a staggering amount of fan backlash (even his mother was outraged), and when ''Punch'' eventually offered him a staggering sum to return to writing the character, he relented.
* Creator/AgathaChristie came to hate her most famous character, the
** She may have [[spoiler:killed off Poirot]] in ''Curtain'' in part because she found him intolerable, but another reason was to prevent another author from taking over the Poirot series if she died during World War II. She began the book during the Blitz, when nobody in London knew if they'd survive.
** But the 2014 release of ''The Monogram Murders'' by a ghostwriter proved that even AuthorExistenceFailure couldn't bring an end to Poirot works.
* Some tales in Literature/TheBible, such as Noah's Ark, can be interpreted as God having a backlash against humans, especially because of the HumansAreBastards trope.
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* Creator/AlanGarner had strong critical disdain of his first two fantasy novels, ''Literature/TheWeirdstoneOfBrisingamen'' (1960) and ''Literature/TheMoonOfGomrath'' (1963). He considered them [[BlackSheepHit jejeune and childish next to his more evolved later work]]. However, fans loved them and kept badgering for a sequel to tie up the loose ends. He forced himself to write the sequel ''Literature/{{Boneland}}''(2013) - some ''fifty years'' after the two original books. Deliberately, the style is as unlike the first two books as possible.
* Creator/AAMilne and his ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' book series:
** He grew to loathe it, as it typecast him forever as a "writer of children's books" and he could never go back to writing adult fiction. He even tried to kill off Pooh at the end of the 2nd book. (It didn't work.) E. H. Shepard, Pooh's illustrator, also suffered from this, as it overshadowed his work in political cartoons.
** Similarly, Milne's son Christopher Robin grew to hate the works as well, for he was bullied constantly for being immortalized in them. At one point, Christopher accused his father of ''exploiting him'' in the stories. Ironically, he later owned a bookstore, where it's inevitable that someone was going to ask ''that'' question.
* Creator/AAMilne and his ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' book series:
** He grew to loathe it, as it typecast him forever as a "writer of children's books" and he could never go back to writing adult fiction. He even tried to kill off Pooh at the end of the 2nd book. (It didn't work.) E. H. Shepard, Pooh's illustrator, also suffered from this, as it overshadowed his work in political cartoons.
** Similarly, Milne's son Christopher Robin grew to hate the works as well, for he was bullied constantly for being immortalized in them. At one point, Christopher accused his father of ''exploiting him'' in the stories. Ironically, he later owned a bookstore, where it's inevitable that someone was going to ask ''that'' question.
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* Creator/AlanGarner had strong critical disdain of for his first two fantasy novels, ''Literature/TheWeirdstoneOfBrisingamen'' (1960) and ''Literature/TheMoonOfGomrath'' (1963). He considered them [[BlackSheepHit jejeune and childish next to his more evolved later work]]. However, fans loved them and kept badgering for a sequel to tie up the loose ends. He forced himself to write the sequel ''Literature/{{Boneland}}''(2013) - ''Literature/{{Boneland}}'' in 2013, some ''fifty years'' after the two original books. Deliberately, the style is as unlike the first two books as possible.
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** He grew to loathe it,series, as it typecast him forever as a "writer of children's books" and he could never go prevented him from going back to writing adult fiction. He even tried to kill off Pooh at the end of the 2nd second book. (It didn't work.) E. H. Shepard, Pooh's illustrator, illustrator E.H. Shepard also suffered from this, as it overshadowed his work in political cartoons.
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* Creator/StephenieMeyer claims that she is "so over" ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', saying that it is "not a happy place to be" for her. In particular, she's tired of it constantly overshadowing her more recent works. When asked if she'd ever return to the series, Meyer replied "Not completely. What I would probably do is three paragraphs on my blog saying which of the characters died."
* Creator/StephenKing:
** In-universe example: ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' is about an author who hates his popular character (the Victorian CanonSue who along with [[TraumaCongaLine the author's own literal misery]] lends the book its DoubleMeaningTitle) and so decides to kill her off. He in fact hates the character so much that he penned a short story about Misery [[BestialityIsDepraved having sex with her love interest's dog]] and circulated it among his friends. Unfortunately he gets badly injured in a car crash and then gets rescued by an AxCrazy BattleaxeNurse who isn't thrilled about Misery's fate and demands he invoke SavedByTheFans... [[ColdBloodedTorture Or else.]]
** In RealLife, King has come to regret writing the novel ''Literature/{{Rage}}'' because someone decided to [[LifeImitatesArt make life echo art]] with that book -- or rather, make ''[[MurderSimulators death]]'' echo art. Current copies of ''The Bachman Books'' no longer feature ''Rage''. That said, the short story "Cain Rose Up", which deals with similar topics, is still in ''Skeleton Crew''. For those wondering, both ''Rage'' and "Cain Rose Up" concern [[spoiler: a student who [[AxesAtSchool kills people on school grounds]]. ''Rage'' has the main character/narrator "only" kill two teachers in the course of a long quasi-therapy session with his classmates, be treated sympathetically by all but one of said classmates (in the end the others turn on the OnlySaneMan), and ultimately get non-fatally shot by the police; both he and the holdout are last seen in different mental institutions. "Cain Rose Up" features a sniper who is still killing indiscriminately at the end of the story.]]
** In his book ''On Writing'', King admitted to not being too fond of ''Literature/{{Insomnia}}'' and ''Literature/RoseMadder'', since he actually plotted them out, and they became "stiff, trying too hard" novels. In fact, the only plotted novel of his that he likes is ''Literature/TheDeadZone''.
** He does not like ''Literature/{{Dreamcatcher}}'', saying that he wrote it while he was high on [=OxyContin=].
** In the introduction to ''Literature/PetSematary'', he admits not really liking the novel because he finds it too bleak, nihilistic and grim, expressing a hopeless view of the world that he doesn't really believe, and only agreed to publish it to get out of a contract. Ironically crosses over with MagnumOpusDissonance, since this bleakness means that many readers consider it his most effective 'straight' horror novel.
* Creator/StephenKing:
** In-universe example: ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' is about an author who hates his popular character (the Victorian CanonSue who along with [[TraumaCongaLine the author's own literal misery]] lends the book its DoubleMeaningTitle) and so decides to kill her off. He in fact hates the character so much that he penned a short story about Misery [[BestialityIsDepraved having sex with her love interest's dog]] and circulated it among his friends. Unfortunately he gets badly injured in a car crash and then gets rescued by an AxCrazy BattleaxeNurse who isn't thrilled about Misery's fate and demands he invoke SavedByTheFans... [[ColdBloodedTorture Or else.]]
** In RealLife, King has come to regret writing the novel ''Literature/{{Rage}}'' because someone decided to [[LifeImitatesArt make life echo art]] with that book -- or rather, make ''[[MurderSimulators death]]'' echo art. Current copies of ''The Bachman Books'' no longer feature ''Rage''. That said, the short story "Cain Rose Up", which deals with similar topics, is still in ''Skeleton Crew''. For those wondering, both ''Rage'' and "Cain Rose Up" concern [[spoiler: a student who [[AxesAtSchool kills people on school grounds]]. ''Rage'' has the main character/narrator "only" kill two teachers in the course of a long quasi-therapy session with his classmates, be treated sympathetically by all but one of said classmates (in the end the others turn on the OnlySaneMan), and ultimately get non-fatally shot by the police; both he and the holdout are last seen in different mental institutions. "Cain Rose Up" features a sniper who is still killing indiscriminately at the end of the story.]]
** In his book ''On Writing'', King admitted to not being too fond of ''Literature/{{Insomnia}}'' and ''Literature/RoseMadder'', since he actually plotted them out, and they became "stiff, trying too hard" novels. In fact, the only plotted novel of his that he likes is ''Literature/TheDeadZone''.
** He does not like ''Literature/{{Dreamcatcher}}'', saying that he wrote it while he was high on [=OxyContin=].
** In the introduction to ''Literature/PetSematary'', he admits not really liking the novel because he finds it too bleak, nihilistic and grim, expressing a hopeless view of the world that he doesn't really believe, and only agreed to publish it to get out of a contract. Ironically crosses over with MagnumOpusDissonance, since this bleakness means that many readers consider it his most effective 'straight' horror novel.
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* Creator/StephenieMeyer claims that she is "so over" ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', saying that it is "not a happy place to be" for her. In particular, she's tired of it constantly overshadowing her more recent works. When asked if she'd ever return to the series, Meyer replied replied, "Not completely. What I would probably do is three paragraphs on my blog saying which of the characters died."
*Creator/StephenKing:
** In-universe example: ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' is about an author who hates his popular character (the Victorian CanonSue who along with [[TraumaCongaLine the author's own literal misery]] lends the book its DoubleMeaningTitle) and so decides to kill her off. He in fact hates the character so much that he penned a short story about Misery [[BestialityIsDepraved having sex with her love interest's dog]] and circulated it among his friends. Unfortunately he gets badly injured in a car crash and then gets rescued by an AxCrazy BattleaxeNurse who isn't thrilled about Misery's fate and demands he invoke SavedByTheFans... [[ColdBloodedTorture Or else.]]
** In RealLife, KingCreator/StephenKing has come written many things, not all of which he remembers fondly:
** He came to regret writingthe novel ''Literature/{{Rage}}'' because someone decided to [[LifeImitatesArt make life echo art]] with that book -- or rather, make ''[[MurderSimulators death]]'' echo art. even though art, in this case, involves [[AxesAtSchool students killing teachers]]. Current copies of ''The Bachman Books'' no longer feature ''Rage''. That said, ''Rage'' for that reason. Oddly, the short story "Cain Rose Up", which deals with similar topics, is Up" can still be found in ''Skeleton Crew''. For those wondering, both ''Rage'' and "Cain Rose Up" concern [[spoiler: a student who [[AxesAtSchool kills people on school grounds]]. ''Rage'' has the main character/narrator "only" kill two teachers in the course of a long quasi-therapy session Crew'' despite dealing with his classmates, be treated sympathetically by all but one of said classmates (in the end the others turn on the OnlySaneMan), and ultimately get non-fatally shot by the police; both he and the holdout are last seen in similar subject matter (perhaps it's different mental institutions. "Cain Rose Up" features a sniper who is still killing indiscriminately at because the end of the story.]]
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** Hedoes not doesn't like ''Literature/{{Dreamcatcher}}'', saying that he wrote it [[ArtisticStimulation while he was high on [=OxyContin=].
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** Used InUniverse in ''Literature/{{Misery}}'', which is about an author who hates his popular character ([[DoubleMeaningTitle named Misery]]) and decides to kill her off. In fact, he hates her so much that he pens a short story about her [[BestialityIsDepraved having sex with her love interest's dog]] and circulates it among his friends for a lark. But then he gets badly injured in a car crash and is rescued by a BattleaxeNurse who isn't thrilled about Misery's fate and [[SavedByTheFans demands he fix it]]... [[ColdBloodedTorture or else]].
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** In-universe example: ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' is about an author who hates his popular character (the Victorian CanonSue who along with [[TraumaCongaLine the author's own literal misery]] lends the book its DoubleMeaningTitle) and so decides to kill her off. He in fact hates the character so much that he penned a short story about Misery [[BestialityIsDepraved having sex with her love interest's dog]] and circulated it among his friends. Unfortunately he gets badly injured in a car crash and then gets rescued by an AxCrazy BattleaxeNurse who isn't thrilled about Misery's fate and demands he invoke SavedByTheFans... [[ColdBloodedTorture Or else.]]
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** Used InUniverse in ''Literature/{{Misery}}'', which is about an author who hates his popular character ([[DoubleMeaningTitle named Misery]]) and decides to kill her off. In fact, he hates her so much that he pens a short story about her [[BestialityIsDepraved having sex with her love interest's dog]] and circulates it among his friends for a lark. But then he gets badly injured in a car crash and is rescued by a BattleaxeNurse who isn't thrilled about Misery's fate and [[SavedByTheFans demands he fix it]]... [[ColdBloodedTorture or else]].
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* Richardson actually insulted his work ''Literature/{{Clarissa}}'' in the prologue of one of the volume published, saying the main character was dull and didn't understand how anybody enjoyed the work. He later picked apart the morals in ''Clarissa'' in another of his works.
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* Samuel Richardson actually insulted his work ''Literature/{{Clarissa}}'' in the prologue of one of the volume published, later volumes, saying the main character was dull and didn't understand not understanding how anybody enjoyed the work. He later picked picks apart the morals in ''Clarissa'' in another of his works.
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* Western author Creator/LouisLAmour early in his career was hired to write a series of stories about the character 'Hopalong' Cassidy for a western pulp magazine. The stories were not about an original character and were extensively edited to tie in with a 'Hopalong' Cassidy TV show. L'Amour later in life denied ever writing them in the first place, even to his own family. They were only reprinted after his death.
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* Western author Creator/LouisLAmour early in his career was hired to write a series of stories about the character 'Hopalong' "Hopalong" Cassidy for a western Western pulp magazine. The stories were not about an original character and were extensively edited to tie in with a 'Hopalong' "Hopalong" Cassidy TV show. L'Amour later in life denied ever writing them in the first place, even to his own family. They were only reprinted after his death.
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* Another in-story example: Sharyn [=McCrumb=]'s novel ''Literature/{{Bimbos of the Death Sun}}'' features an author who despises the series of cheesy Literature/ConanTheBarbarian-style novels to which he's become metaphorically chained by success and merchandising, all the while wanting recognition for his use of Celtic mythology in the books.
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* Another in-story example: InUniverse: Sharyn [=McCrumb=]'s novel ''Literature/{{Bimbos of the Death Sun}}'' features an author who despises the series of cheesy Literature/ConanTheBarbarian-style ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian''-style novels to which he's become metaphorically chained by success and merchandising, all the while wanting recognition for his use of Celtic mythology in the books.
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** Dr Asimov was troubled by the idea that "Literature/Nightfall1941" was widely considered his best work. This was partly because it was one of his earliest works (he wrote it when he was 21), so the notion that it was his best story suggested that he hadn't improved as an author in 50 years of writing. One of the most-remembered paragraphs from that story (it's toward the end) isn't his work, having been added by editor Creator/JohnWCampbell.
** Similarly, one of the reasons that it took 30 years for the fourth ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' book to come out was that he was tired of the series. The main thing that got him to work on ''Foundation's Edge'' was the [[MoneyDearBoy boatload of cash]] he was offered.
* Stephen Crane believed that the best way of writing was to go experience something, then dash off your thoughts rapidly and without editing, while being careful not to go on too long. For reasons uncertain to biographers (a bet may have factored into it), he decided to write ''Literature/TheRedBadgeOfCourage'', based on nothing he'd ever seen, heavily edited, and by his own admission "too long." Naturally, "the damned ''Red Badge''" made him famous, while not necessarily helping to dispel his conviction that Readers Were Morons.
* Creator/PeterSBeagle called ''Literature/AFineAndPrivatePlace'' (his first novel, and fairly well received) his "state of grace" novel, where he must have been protected by whatever spirit watches over young and self-important authors.
** Double example with ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'', whose popularity has overshadowed a LOT of Beagle's work, and questions about a sequel have increasingly annoyed him. He's finally going to give in, though, so he can't hate it that much...
* Shocked by the conditions in which Dust Bowl refugees lived, Creator/JohnSteinbeck wrote a satire, ''L'Affaire Lettuceberg.'' He decided, however, that it would be better not to publish it, because it was to "cause hatred through partial understanding" and he preferred "making people understand each other." Reconsidering the subject, he wrote ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'', a much more direct and passionate work.
** Similarly, one of the reasons that it took 30 years for the fourth ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' book to come out was that he was tired of the series. The main thing that got him to work on ''Foundation's Edge'' was the [[MoneyDearBoy boatload of cash]] he was offered.
* Stephen Crane believed that the best way of writing was to go experience something, then dash off your thoughts rapidly and without editing, while being careful not to go on too long. For reasons uncertain to biographers (a bet may have factored into it), he decided to write ''Literature/TheRedBadgeOfCourage'', based on nothing he'd ever seen, heavily edited, and by his own admission "too long." Naturally, "the damned ''Red Badge''" made him famous, while not necessarily helping to dispel his conviction that Readers Were Morons.
* Creator/PeterSBeagle called ''Literature/AFineAndPrivatePlace'' (his first novel, and fairly well received) his "state of grace" novel, where he must have been protected by whatever spirit watches over young and self-important authors.
** Double example with ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'', whose popularity has overshadowed a LOT of Beagle's work, and questions about a sequel have increasingly annoyed him. He's finally going to give in, though, so he can't hate it that much...
* Shocked by the conditions in which Dust Bowl refugees lived, Creator/JohnSteinbeck wrote a satire, ''L'Affaire Lettuceberg.'' He decided, however, that it would be better not to publish it, because it was to "cause hatred through partial understanding" and he preferred "making people understand each other." Reconsidering the subject, he wrote ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'', a much more direct and passionate work.
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** Dr Dr. Asimov was troubled by the idea that "Literature/Nightfall1941" "Literature/{{Nightfall|1941}}" was widely considered his best work. This was partly because it was one of his earliest works (he wrote it when he was 21), so the notion that it was his best story suggested that he hadn't improved as an author in 50 years of writing. One of the most-remembered paragraphs from that story (it's toward the end) isn't even his work, having been work; it was added by editor Creator/JohnWCampbell.
**Similarly, one One of the reasons that it took 30 years for the fourth ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' book to come out was that he was tired of the series. The main thing that got him to work on ''Foundation's Edge'' was the [[MoneyDearBoy boatload of cash]] he was offered.
* Stephen Crane believed that the best way of writing was to go experience something, then [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants dash off your thoughts rapidly and withoutediting, editing]], while being careful not to go on too long. For reasons uncertain to biographers (a bet may have factored into it), he decided to write ''Literature/TheRedBadgeOfCourage'', ''Literature/TheRedBadgeOfCourage'' based on nothing he'd ever seen, heavily edited, and by his own admission "too long." long". Naturally, "the damned ''Red Badge''" made him famous, while not necessarily helping to dispel his conviction that [[ViewersAreMorons Readers Were Morons.
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** He called ''Literature/AFineAndPrivatePlace'' (his first novel, and fairly well received) his "state of grace" novel,where suggesting he must have been protected by whatever spirit watches over young and self-important authors.
** Double example with ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'', whose popularity has overshadowed aLOT lot of Beagle's work, and questions about a sequel have increasingly annoyed him. He's finally going to give in, though, so he can't hate it that much...
* Shocked by the conditions in which Dust Bowl refugees lived, Creator/JohnSteinbeck wrote a satire, ''L'AffaireLettuceberg.'' Lettuceberg''. He decided, however, that it would be better not to publish it, because it was to "cause hatred through partial understanding" and he preferred "making people understand each other." Reconsidering the subject, he wrote ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'', a much more direct and passionate work.
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* Shocked by the conditions in which Dust Bowl refugees lived, Creator/JohnSteinbeck wrote a satire, ''L'Affaire
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* Upton Sinclair was severely upset that the only thing about ''Literature/TheJungle'' that stuck with America was the horrific conditions of the meat packing industry, as opposed to the socialist AuthorTract that took up most of the book.
--> "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
* Arthur C. Clarke came to dislike ''Rescue Party'' due to [[ToughActToFollow so many fans preferring something so early in his career]].
* Lucy Maud Montgomery was sick of her most famous work, ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables,'' by the time she wrote its sequel. The creation of [[Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon Emily Starr]] was a direct result of her own disillusionment with her work - though she went on to put out eight books in the ''Anne'' series anyway (the last two books feature Anne as a supporting character, rather than the main character she'd been in previous instalments). In addition, the series was written out of order, which meant that the last book she wrote wasn't ''Rilla of Ingleside'', which ends the series, but ''Anne of Ingleside''. By then she was thoroughly tired of writing Anne.
--> "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
* Arthur C. Clarke came to dislike ''Rescue Party'' due to [[ToughActToFollow so many fans preferring something so early in his career]].
* Lucy Maud Montgomery was sick of her most famous work, ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables,'' by the time she wrote its sequel. The creation of [[Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon Emily Starr]] was a direct result of her own disillusionment with her work - though she went on to put out eight books in the ''Anne'' series anyway (the last two books feature Anne as a supporting character, rather than the main character she'd been in previous instalments). In addition, the series was written out of order, which meant that the last book she wrote wasn't ''Rilla of Ingleside'', which ends the series, but ''Anne of Ingleside''. By then she was thoroughly tired of writing Anne.
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* Upton Sinclair was severely upset that the only thing about ''Literature/TheJungle'' that stuck with America was the horrific conditions of the meat packing meatpacking industry, as opposed to the socialist AuthorTract that took up most of the book.
--> "I -->"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
* Arthur C. Clarke came to dislike ''Rescue Party'' due to [[ToughActToFollow so many fans preferringsomething so early it to what he wrote later in his career]].
* Lucy Maud Montgomery was sick of her most famous work,''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables,'' ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'', by the time she wrote its sequel. The creation of [[Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon Emily Starr]] was a direct result of her own disillusionment with her work - work, though she went on to put out eight books in the ''Anne'' series anyway (the last two books feature relegate Anne as a to [[DemotedToExtra supporting character, rather than the main character she'd been in previous instalments).status]]). In addition, the series was written out of order, which meant that the last book she wrote wasn't ''Rilla of Ingleside'', which ends the series, but ''Anne of Ingleside''. By then she was thoroughly tired of writing Anne.
* Arthur C. Clarke came to dislike ''Rescue Party'' due to [[ToughActToFollow so many fans preferring
* Lucy Maud Montgomery was sick of her most famous work,
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* Creator/JRRTolkien said that his fans "are involved in the stories in a way that I'm not" and he wasn't sure that treating them as a "kind of a vast game" was a good idea and referred to more obsessive ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fans as "my deplorable cultus."
* Creator/DouglasAdams suffered from terrible black moods, and in response to constant nagging from fans for a new ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' book, he gave them a [[CreatorBreakdown dose of his depression in literary form:]] ''Literature/MostlyHarmless''. It's a depressing, nihilistic book in which EverybodyDies and the Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes. It made any more sequels impossible, and was a big middle finger to all his fans. Years later, Adams said he regretted ending the series on such a depressing note, and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed it all when he died.
** When ''Mostly Harmless'' was adapted for radio as "The Quintessential Phase" the DownerEnding was revised into a more optimistic version, although it's not entirely clear how authentic this was to Adams's unfinished plans.
** He also regretted elements of ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', which is happier, but perhaps less of an [=H2G2=] book; in particular the bit where he snaps at the reader that if they want a Marvin bit they can skip to the end. He also commented that the book was backwards; Arthur as the seasoned galactic traveller amongst {{Muggles}}, and that part of him kept saying he couldn't just bring the Earth back like that. The last line of the book is "There was a point to this story but it has temporarily escaped the author's mind", and Adams once said that this was him "owning up".
* Creator/DouglasAdams suffered from terrible black moods, and in response to constant nagging from fans for a new ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' book, he gave them a [[CreatorBreakdown dose of his depression in literary form:]] ''Literature/MostlyHarmless''. It's a depressing, nihilistic book in which EverybodyDies and the Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes. It made any more sequels impossible, and was a big middle finger to all his fans. Years later, Adams said he regretted ending the series on such a depressing note, and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed it all when he died.
** When ''Mostly Harmless'' was adapted for radio as "The Quintessential Phase" the DownerEnding was revised into a more optimistic version, although it's not entirely clear how authentic this was to Adams's unfinished plans.
** He also regretted elements of ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', which is happier, but perhaps less of an [=H2G2=] book; in particular the bit where he snaps at the reader that if they want a Marvin bit they can skip to the end. He also commented that the book was backwards; Arthur as the seasoned galactic traveller amongst {{Muggles}}, and that part of him kept saying he couldn't just bring the Earth back like that. The last line of the book is "There was a point to this story but it has temporarily escaped the author's mind", and Adams once said that this was him "owning up".
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* Creator/JRRTolkien said that his fans "are involved in the stories in a way that I'm not" and he wasn't sure that treating them as a "kind of a vast game" was a good idea and referred grew to more obsessive dislike ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fans mostly because of the extreme obsessiveness of its fans, saying they were "involved in the stories in a way that I'm not" and referring to them as "my deplorable cultus."
cultus".
* Creator/DouglasAdams suffered from terrible black moods, andin response the fourth and fifth installments of the ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker's Guide to constant the Galaxy]]'' trilogy (which [[TrilogyCreep tells you when he was thinking of ending it]]) are both missives at his fans constantly nagging from fans him for a new ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' book. Interestingly, they go about it in very different ways:
** The fourth book,he gave them a [[CreatorBreakdown dose of his depression in literary form:]] ''Literature/MostlyHarmless''. It's a depressing, nihilistic book in which EverybodyDies and the Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes. It made any more sequels impossible, and was a big middle finger to all his fans. Years later, Adams said he regretted ending the series on such a depressing note, and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed it all when he died.
** When ''Mostly Harmless'' was adapted for radio as "The Quintessential Phase" the DownerEnding was revised into a more optimistic version, although it's not entirely clear how authentic this was to Adams's unfinished plans.
** He also regretted elements of''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', which is happier, doesn't feel like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book at all, instead focusing mostly on Arthur and his new love life back on Earth. This was jarring for fans, who had grown accustomed to Arthur travelling the galaxy as an UnfazedEveryman and who also found it unconvincing that Earth could be a setting after its [[EarthShatteringKaboom abrupt destruction in a bureaucratic tangle]] barely two chapters into the first book. Adams seemed to anticipate that fans wouldn't like the direction he was going, but perhaps less of an [=H2G2=] book; in particular he wanted to write something else, damn it -- so midway through the bit where book, he snaps at the reader and tells them that if they want a Marvin bit don't like where the book is going, they can [[DontLikeDontRead skip to the end. He also commented that the book was backwards; Arthur as the seasoned galactic traveller amongst {{Muggles}}, and that part end]] for a bit with fan-favourite character Marvin (but Marvin [[spoiler:dies, while actually kind of him kept saying he couldn't just bring the Earth back like that. not depressed, having finally proven his usefulness by reading out God's final message to creation]]). The last line of the book is reads, "There was a point to this story but it has temporarily escaped the author's mind", and mind" -- Adams once said that this was him "owning up".up".
** By contrast, the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', feels much more like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book. It's also a depressing, nihilistic book in which Arthur's RelationshipUpgrade in the previous book is [[BusCrash undone off-screen]], the Guide is taken over by ''really'' {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and EverybodyDies and Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes, essentially [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun making any more books impossible]]. Adams came to regret ending the series on such a depressing note and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed everything, but [[AuthorExistenceFailure sadly died before he could finish it]]. Bits of it were posthumously published as part of ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt''. The radio adaptation (as the "Quintessential Phase") also revised the DownerEnding to something more optimistic, although it's not entirely clear how much of that lined up with Adams' unfinished plans.
* Creator/DouglasAdams suffered from terrible black moods, and
** The fourth book,
** When ''Mostly Harmless'' was adapted for radio as "The Quintessential Phase" the DownerEnding was revised into a more optimistic version, although it's not entirely clear how authentic this was to Adams's unfinished plans.
** He also regretted elements of
** By contrast, the fifth book, ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', feels much more like a ''Hitchhiker's'' book. It's also a depressing, nihilistic book in which Arthur's RelationshipUpgrade in the previous book is [[BusCrash undone off-screen]], the Guide is taken over by ''really'' {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and EverybodyDies and Earth is irrevocably destroyed in all universes, essentially [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun making any more books impossible]]. Adams came to regret ending the series on such a depressing note and was in the early stages of writing a sixth book that would have fixed everything, but [[AuthorExistenceFailure sadly died before he could finish it]]. Bits of it were posthumously published as part of ''Literature/TheSalmonOfDoubt''. The radio adaptation (as the "Quintessential Phase") also revised the DownerEnding to something more optimistic, although it's not entirely clear how much of that lined up with Adams' unfinished plans.
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* An InUniverse example: In Frank Stockton's short story "His Wife's Deceased Sister", the protagonist writes the eponymous novel, which is so wonderful that he instantly becomes famous. However, this work is a one-off, and it is so good that it sets an unrealistically high standard to which he is held, and every other novel he submits is rejected, with the editors being insulted, thinking he he is foisting his rejects upon them. Driven to financial ruin, he comes to regret ever writing his masterpiece, and must write under a pseudonym to make ends meet. Eventually, when he manages to write another masterpiece, he ends up destroying it, fearing that it will again ruin his career.
* Creator/LFrankBaum resented writing sequels to ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', and repeatedly tried to end the Oz series altogether. Several books end with firm declarations that he has told the reader everything there is to know about Oz, or that Oz has cut itself off from the rest of the world, and he can no longer give the reader new stories as a result. Yet Baum's other books never sold well, and for [[MoneyDearBoy strictly financial reasons]] he was forced to repeatedly return to the tired franchise.
* Creator/LFrankBaum resented writing sequels to ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', and repeatedly tried to end the Oz series altogether. Several books end with firm declarations that he has told the reader everything there is to know about Oz, or that Oz has cut itself off from the rest of the world, and he can no longer give the reader new stories as a result. Yet Baum's other books never sold well, and for [[MoneyDearBoy strictly financial reasons]] he was forced to repeatedly return to the tired franchise.
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* An InUniverse example: InUniverse: In Frank Stockton's short story "His Wife's Deceased Sister", the protagonist writes the eponymous novel, which is so wonderful that he instantly becomes famous. However, this work is a one-off, and it is so good that it sets an unrealistically high standard to which he is held, and held; every other novel he submits is rejected, with the editors being insulted, thinking he he is foisting his rejects upon them. Driven to financial ruin, he comes to regret ever writing his masterpiece, and must write under a pseudonym to make ends meet. Eventually, when he manages to write another masterpiece, he ends up destroying it, fearing that it will again ruin his career.
* Creator/LFrankBaum resented writing sequels to''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' and repeatedly tried to end the Oz series altogether. Several books end with firm declarations that he has told the reader everything there is to know about Oz, or that Oz has cut itself off from the rest of the world, and he can no longer give the reader new stories as a result. Yet Baum's other books never sold well, and for [[MoneyDearBoy strictly financial reasons]] he was forced to repeatedly return to the tired franchise.
* Creator/LFrankBaum resented writing sequels to
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* Subverted by Creator/VladimirNabokov, most famous for ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', who said in a interview with ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' magazine that while "he'll never regret ''Lolita''" he does feel it overshadowed all his other works, which he feels are more deserving.
* Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe came to regret, and, for a time, disowned ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfYoungWerther'', partially because he regretted putting the personal issues it was based on in the public light, partially general embarrassment with the romantic movement, and partially annoyance with the obsessive fandom.
* Ian Fleming was sufficiently unhappy with his novel ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he licensed the title only and required the film producers to write an entirely new story. Since the movie is generally regarded as one of the the best Bond movies in the series, or at least one of the best Bond movies of the Roger Moore era, this turned out to be not such a bad thing.
* Creator/AndrzejSapkowski has come to utterly despise ''Literature/TheWitcher'', due to both his disagreement with the direction CD Projeck RED has taken the series, and anger over the ''Witcher'' series [[OneHitWonder being the only thing most people remember him for]].
* "Ode an die Freude" ("Ode to Joy", now best known in its choral setting as one movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony) has been popular ever since it was first written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785. But fifteen years after its publication he wrote a letter to his friend Körner saying he regarded the ode as a failure, calling it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe to us two, but not for the world, nor for the art of poetry".
* "Eyeless Jack" The writer of Eyeless Jack, [=Azelf5000=] said on one of his blogs that he agreed that it was poorly-written and said, "Since Jeff has been removed, this should be off too." But, let's give him some points as the he took the deletion very maturely, and knew it wasn't the greatest story ever. Unlike the writer of ''VideoGame/SonicExe'', however....
* Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe came to regret, and, for a time, disowned ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfYoungWerther'', partially because he regretted putting the personal issues it was based on in the public light, partially general embarrassment with the romantic movement, and partially annoyance with the obsessive fandom.
* Ian Fleming was sufficiently unhappy with his novel ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that he licensed the title only and required the film producers to write an entirely new story. Since the movie is generally regarded as one of the the best Bond movies in the series, or at least one of the best Bond movies of the Roger Moore era, this turned out to be not such a bad thing.
* Creator/AndrzejSapkowski has come to utterly despise ''Literature/TheWitcher'', due to both his disagreement with the direction CD Projeck RED has taken the series, and anger over the ''Witcher'' series [[OneHitWonder being the only thing most people remember him for]].
* "Ode an die Freude" ("Ode to Joy", now best known in its choral setting as one movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony) has been popular ever since it was first written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785. But fifteen years after its publication he wrote a letter to his friend Körner saying he regarded the ode as a failure, calling it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe to us two, but not for the world, nor for the art of poetry".
* "Eyeless Jack" The writer of Eyeless Jack, [=Azelf5000=] said on one of his blogs that he agreed that it was poorly-written and said, "Since Jeff has been removed, this should be off too." But, let's give him some points as the he took the deletion very maturely, and knew it wasn't the greatest story ever. Unlike the writer of ''VideoGame/SonicExe'', however....
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* Subverted by Creator/VladimirNabokov, most famous for ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'', who said in a interview with ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' magazine that while he felt that it overshadowed his other, more deserving works, "he'll never regret ''Lolita''" he does feel it overshadowed all his other works, which he feels are more deserving.
''Lolita''."
* Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe came to regret, and, for a time, disowned ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfYoungWerther'', partially because he regretted putting the personal issues it was based on in the public light, partially out of general embarrassment with the romantic movement, and partially out of annoyance withthe its obsessive fandom.
* Ian Fleming was sufficiently unhappy withhis novel ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' that when it was [[Film/JamesBond adapted to film]], he licensed only the title only and required told the film producers to write an entirely new story. Since the movie is generally regarded as one of the the best Bond movies in the series, or at least one of the best Bond movies of the Roger Moore era, this turned out to be not such a bad thing.
* Creator/AndrzejSapkowski has come to utterly despise ''Literature/TheWitcher'', due to both his disagreement with the direction CD Projeck RED has taken the series, and anger over the''Witcher'' series [[OneHitWonder being the only thing most people remember him for]].
* "Ode an die Freude" ("Ode to Joy", now best known in its choral setting as one movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony) has been popular ever since it was first written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785. But fifteen years after itspublication publication, he wrote a letter to his friend Körner saying he regarded the ode as a failure, calling it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe to us two, but not for the world, nor for the art of poetry".
* %% What is this supposed to be?* The writer of "Eyeless Jack" The writer of Eyeless Jack, [=Azelf5000=] Jack", [=Azelf5000=], said on one of his blogs that he agreed that it was poorly-written and said, "Since Jeff has been removed, this should be off too." But, let's give him some points as the he took the deletion very maturely, and knew it wasn't the greatest story ever. Unlike the writer of ''VideoGame/SonicExe'', however....
* Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe came to regret, and, for a time, disowned ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfYoungWerther'', partially because he regretted putting the personal issues it was based on in the public light, partially out of general embarrassment with the romantic movement, and partially out of annoyance with
* Ian Fleming was sufficiently unhappy with
* Creator/AndrzejSapkowski has come to utterly despise ''Literature/TheWitcher'', due to both his disagreement with the direction CD Projeck RED has taken the series, and anger over the
* "Ode an die Freude" ("Ode to Joy", now best known in its choral setting as one movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony) has been popular ever since it was first written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785. But fifteen years after its
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* Creator/HPLovecraft disliked much of his work, particularly ''Herbert West - Reanimator'', which he did [[MoneyDearBoy mainly to pay the bills]]. He wasn't much of a fan of ''The Horror at Red Hook'' either, and once described ''The Call of Cthulhu'' as "middling" and "full of cheap and cumbrous touches".
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* Creator/HPLovecraft disliked much of his work, particularly ''Herbert West - -- Reanimator'', which he did [[MoneyDearBoy mainly to pay the bills]]. He wasn't much of a fan of ''The Horror at Red Hook'' either, and once described ''The Call of Cthulhu'' as "middling" and "full of cheap and cumbrous touches".
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--> "Can you imagine writing a novel and hating your heroine?"
* The 1978 book ''How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend'' is a non-fiction book designed to help train dogs. It popularized the "alpha roll"--rolling a dog into its back in order to prove your dominance over it. The concept has long since been debunked as it was based on wolf dynamics involving unrelated captive wolves in an unnatural pack dynamic. The second edition of the book from 2002 notes this and discourages using it because it's dangerous and is used too often by people, when it was originally a last-resort technique.
* Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez [[https://www.abc.es/cultura/libros/20140417/abci-garcia-marquez-odio-cien-201404172322.html talked about his displeasure]] that he got international fame for writing Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude and his dislike for what many critics consider as the greatest novel in Latin American literature. His dislike for it stems for how it [[ToughActToFollow overshadowed the rest of his work]], for [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible how critics and intellectuals have praised it without understanding it properly]], brought him [[CelebrityIsOverrated unwanted amounts of fame]], and lastly, he considers his other novels to be far superior to it.
* William March considered his 1954 novel ''Literature/TheBadSeed'' to be thoroughly mediocre, though it is his most well-known and praised novel today.
* The 1978 book ''How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend'' is a non-fiction book designed to help train dogs. It popularized the "alpha roll"--rolling a dog into its back in order to prove your dominance over it. The concept has long since been debunked as it was based on wolf dynamics involving unrelated captive wolves in an unnatural pack dynamic. The second edition of the book from 2002 notes this and discourages using it because it's dangerous and is used too often by people, when it was originally a last-resort technique.
* Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez [[https://www.abc.es/cultura/libros/20140417/abci-garcia-marquez-odio-cien-201404172322.html talked about his displeasure]] that he got international fame for writing Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude and his dislike for what many critics consider as the greatest novel in Latin American literature. His dislike for it stems for how it [[ToughActToFollow overshadowed the rest of his work]], for [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible how critics and intellectuals have praised it without understanding it properly]], brought him [[CelebrityIsOverrated unwanted amounts of fame]], and lastly, he considers his other novels to be far superior to it.
* William March considered his 1954 novel ''Literature/TheBadSeed'' to be thoroughly mediocre, though it is his most well-known and praised novel today.
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* The 1978 book ''How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend'' is a non-fiction book designed to help train dogs. It popularized the "alpha
* Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez [[https://www.abc.es/cultura/libros/20140417/abci-garcia-marquez-odio-cien-201404172322.html talked about his displeasure]] that he got international fame for writing
* William March considered his 1954 novel ''Literature/TheBadSeed'' to be thoroughly mediocre, though it is his best-known and most
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* Creator/AnneRice, for a time, disclaimed her popular ''Literature/VampireChronicles'' series, as well as the connected ''Mayfair Witches'' series, due to converting to Christianity, but then she got over it after she denounced religion.
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* Creator/AnneRice, for a time, disclaimed her popular ''Literature/VampireChronicles'' ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Vampire Chronicles]]'' series, as well as the connected ''Mayfair Witches'' series, due to converting to Christianity, but then she got over it after she denounced religion.
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* Some tales in Literature/TheBible, such as Noah's Ark, can be interpreted as God having a backlash against humans, especially because of the HumansAreBastards trope. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment But let's leave it at that.]]
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* Some tales in Literature/TheBible, such as Noah's Ark, can be interpreted as God having a backlash against humans, especially because of the HumansAreBastards trope. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment But let's leave it at that.]]
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Creator Backlash is very clearly defined as *the creator* commenting negatively on his/her own work.
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* Creator/JKRowling has been under fire for ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' and ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' due to the massive number of retcons that she had a hand in (particularly Hermione being black and McGonagall's age being wrong). Compounding this is her bizarre revelations on social media that further contradict her earlier statements and that no one really asked for nor needed to know.
