sort of breaking news
Anna Genoese is leaving Tor. No more spotting her at RWA conferences--she was always fun to spot at conferences. Bah.
No snark. Bad puppy. No. (Review stuff.)
A two star Amazon review on His American Detective: "Bodice ripper about gay men by a woman." and I'm longing to comment "don't you mean a waistcoat ripper?" God, no. Stop me. The reviews rarely rattle me any longer -- except when I spot a truth in a bad one. When that happens, I actually lose sleep. This means I still care about writing. Speaking of reviewers and writers: A couple of days ago, a writer said she was tired of getting white ladies writing reviews of her books. She had an excellent point in the long run: her stories are meant for a particular audience and she wants them to resonate with those people and get more reviews from them. But that first line was just....horribly obnoxious. I say this from my POV of course. Not a white lady who writes reviews -- but as a review grubber. Anyone who disses any reader (especially ones that give honest reviews) deserves to be cast into the pit of being ignored. ...
Re: the comment below -
ReplyDeletepractically the same person? LOL! Yup, yup.
As in, from reading Kate's blog you'd never know this gal writes Sizzling hot stuff, lol!
Someone made that remark the other day about my blog -
I'm going to change it.
I've asked Oopsie Daisy to be in charge of things.
:-)
Oh my gosh! Thanks for the news. I have a submission there. I suppose that will slow down the process considerably. I wonder who they have to replace her?
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks for your comment on my blog a while ago. I just found I had this moderate comments thingie turned on and a pile of unread comments all stored up. My vow for the new year is to become a better blogger. To keep mine better and visit others more. And of course, yours was the first place I stopped.