My Book is NOT the Maze Runner

MY BOOK IS NOT THE MAZE RUNNER!

Just wanted to write a quick post about how my book is not The Maze Runner by James Dashner. This is more a disclaimer message to all the people who want to read my book that I should have put into the book in the first place, of course I ignored my own intuition that this would happen. 

Ever since people have found out that I wrote and published my book, and they found out that the title was The Maze Games, they have been dogging me about how, 'Oh that sounds just like the Maze Runner' and 'Nope! You copies the Maze Runner, stop denying it!' and things of the nature. To all the people who say that, I won't say screw you, but screw you! Look, I have never read the Maze Runner because, I've learned that an author shouldn't read their competition, even one of my all time favorite authors Michael Grant told aspiring writers not to read the competition. I why read your competitors work? Shouldn't you be focusing on your own work, and trying to make it the best it can be? 

I had the Maze Runner at one point, it was just a month before I had finally come up with the whole concept of the Maze Games-I had previously just been tossing around ideas. I picked it up three or four times, read the first chapter but never had the will to read the rest. I don't really want to read it now, even though it's supposed to be this great, great dystopian novel-not to say that mines is any better-and is the next Hunger Games. 

Let me just say that EVERYTHING-literally- is the next Hunger Games. Dust Lands, Divergent, Dark Inside, The 5th Wave, Seeker, Legend, Delirium, Matched-and the list goes on! 

I understand that The Hunger Games was great, I mean I really liked it, adored it and went to go see the premiere, but it's not the first iconic novel or ground breaking book, and I hate how people compare everything to it like they compare all supernatural books to Twilight. In a way, I hope that my book doesn't become this phenomenon that everyone compares everything too because it becomes annoying to everyone. 

Anyhow, I just want to say that I have never read The Maze Runner, and I never will for obvious reasons. I'm not even going to go see the movie, because I'm sick of people telling me my book is just like it. I feel like Suzanne Collins who constantly denies ever reading Battle Royale. And I know that it's never going to end because people are going to find all kinds of similarities between my book and Dashner's, but I guess I just have to keep my head up and be confident, because I still have 4 books to write in the series, and those who liked the first and want to read the rest, I should be worried about them and getting the books finished, not what book my book is like.