Agreed, and the opening crawls were in past tense as well.

Er ... Star Wars transitions from past to present tense. Here's the last paragraph:

Pursued by the Empire's

sinister agents, PrincessLeia races home aboard herstarship, custodian of thestolen plans that can saveher people and restorefreedom to the galaxy....

The first part of that sentence is a subordinate clause, iirc, meaning that it can have a different tense from the main clause. It is explaining or qualifying further when the action of the main clause is taking place. I'm no grammarian, but I also think these sentences go beyond mere past or present tense...

For those going to GenCon this yeah, this author will be there. You can express your joy (or disdain) to him directly...

He has already responded on Twitter to feedback he's been getting on this...

(And to those complaining that it's in present tense ha ha ha I don't care and I can't fix it now, suckaz.)

...classy!

shrug

He gives twitter complaints the respect they deserve.

True. As much as I dislike his writing, I can't imagine a barrage of Twitter complaints directly to him would have much less a response. What else could he do?

"I'm sorry everybody for this terrible book. Let me scrounge some sorta repayment for you?"

Sure, my initially reaction is 'jerk' but the book was published so it passed some horrible quality checks. He met his contract goals.

Edit: sorry, after a ten hour day my own English isn't very cohesive or elegant either

He gives twitter complaints the respect they deserve.

I think he said exactly the right thing, and if anyone doesn't like it, then don't buy the bloody book and shut up about it...

I truly loath how twitter has created this sense that people have not only the right, but the moral obligation to comment about everything they dislike as if their opinion is somehow more important because it's on the internet. Onion gets another one right

From what I've observed, Wendig is very sarcastic and caustic. I mean, look at this blog:

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/07/22/dear-guy-who-is-mad-because-i-wrote-a-gay-character-in-a-book/

His initial tweet is very in line with what I've seen of his humor. And he sort of responds in kind to the replies. Of course, that doesn't stop him from being crucified by the PT fanatics over an innocent tweet of an app he had.