Genre authors protest at 'shabby treatment' by BBC
Letter from 85 leading authors including Iain M Banks and Michael Moorcock hits out at 'sneering tone' of World Book Night programmes towards commercial fiction
Elder statesmen science fiction authors Iain M Banks and Michael Moorcock are among the 85 authors who have written to BBC director-general Mark Thompson complaining about the "shabby treatment of genre fiction" on World Book Night last month.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 18 April, 2011
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