I have to say, just going on Amazon and bitching out the twits who post about your books is where the problem starts, in my mind. I mean, you can tell they're twits because they misspell the titles of the books they're talking about. So, why did Anne Rice go read these reviews, and having read them and been unable not to respond, what possessed her to respond in the same forum? It is only marginally less dignified than Aaron Sorkin writing West Wing episodes about the crazy people on the internet, so she is by no means extra-special in this department, but -- hello!
That is what the roman a clef is for, if you don't have your own stalking horse TV show.
I can't help but be reminded of a number of adventures in fanfic, where a devoted but opinionated audience, imperious authorial 'tude, accusations of sock-puppetry, and deadly enmity all boil together into a soup of leftover highschool. (See: Snacky's Law.) It's kind of entertaining the first ten times, and then it's suddenly unbelieveably irritating.
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Re: Something I posted on Making Light
Date: 2004-09-23 12:00 pm (UTC)That is what the roman a clef is for, if you don't have your own
stalking horseTV show.I can't help but be reminded of a number of adventures in fanfic, where a devoted but opinionated audience, imperious authorial 'tude, accusations of sock-puppetry, and deadly enmity all boil together into a soup of leftover highschool. (See: Snacky's Law.) It's kind of entertaining the first ten times, and then it's suddenly unbelieveably irritating.