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I was searching the web to see if Prometheus Books had posted
any type of announcement about my forthcoming book, Convicting Avery: The
Bizarre Laws and Broken System behind "Making a Murderer". But before I could find anything, I came across
a website called Reddit. (At
least I think it’s a website; it really just seemed to be a string of comments.) There was a discussion of my recent Wisconsin
Law Journal article about how the Denny rule prevented Jerry Buting
and Dean Strang from putting on a third-party defense at Steven Avery’s trial. Most people in the thread liked my article. And so did a guy or gal who wrote “not a bad column.” (Given
there is a lot of bad writing out there, I’ll take that as praise.) However, he or she also wrote “$$$”
and indicated that the dollar signs “were a criticism over the fact that a
random lawyer out of Kenosha with
no ties to the case is writing a book with ‘Making a Murderer’ in the title.” I tried to post a response, but couldn’t
figure out how. (The problem, I’m sure,
lies with my technological ineptitude; for example, I’ve never snapchatted
or pintrested, I’m not even on facebook, and I don’t even know what
Reddit is.) So instead, I decided to write
this post to dispel some myths and offer some tips to would-be writers:
