You know what

I've had bad reviews. I've had trolls. I've had it all, though I am not published. I have told people a million times that they do not see the abuse I take behind the scenes. Sammie, Kitty, Ki-chan, and even Jagen occasionally have put me through the ringer. Skylark's quibbles have caused me more than one headache fixing my idiotic mistakes.

Not once have I ever said "look at what this evil person did to me!!!" The closest I've ever come is to sulk about and wonder if maybe I really do suck. In the middle of the worst flames, I always wondered if there was some truth to what was said.

That an author would purposely deride and mock a reviewer, and obviously prove he is incapable of taking crit, disgusts me. If he was just an internet author? Fine, we all act like children occasioanlly. But he's not. He's published. That means he should have some standards, I'm sorry. Being published makes you a professional, and if you're going to be professional you should act like a professional. *snarfing* and making ignorant remarks (Sammie never once said he was 13 - that was someone in the comments of her post) is not professional. It is childish.

The beauty of all this is that once upon a time Erastes accused me of being unable to take crit. He has proven himself a hypocrite.

I should not be making a big deal out of this. I have tried very hard not. But I do not tolerate anyone fucking with my family, especially when they go about it so stupidly. Yes, Sammie's review was angry -- not once has she ever denied this. But she made some valid points.

Never did she say she wanted more sex. She said the pacing was screwed up and the plot rushed.

The point about the horse was vaild. That something so careless was done proves that the author is lazy and pays no attention to details, which often make the story. Worse, a mistakee like that throws the reader out of the story. No author should find such a detail unimportant.

There were other things, but I'm not here to rant and I have to get to work.

I will say that the saddest part in this is that I have lost respect for not one but two published writers. That Erastes would act so childish was bad enough. That Lee Rowan joined him in it saddened me. I thought she was cool, and I liked Ransom. I will not be buying the sequel now, though I had planned to when I got paid.

Everyone knows I bitch about Torquere. What some don't know is that a couple of the writers have me friended. They likely see every time I open my mouth and rant and rave. Have they ever trashed me? Bitched at me? Snarfed at me? No. They ignore me. If they even care at all, which I doubt because I assure you my reviews are wholly irrelevant to them, they do it privately. That is how professionals behave. Erastes, and it would seem Lee Rowan, hang more with the Anne Rice crowd.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. Far, far from it. If there is anyone in my family likely to go off the deep end about things, it's me.

If your'e going to get angry about something, at least get your facts straight. If you're a writer snarking about a bad review? Lock the post or better yet -- grow up. Especially when you accuse other writers of the same childish behavior.

And now that I've wasted my morning bitching, I am off to shower and go to work.

I do not want to start a war over this. I would have continued to ignore it except I really detest seeing my family picked on -- and for such stupid reasons. Sammie gave an opinion. If you can't deal with that, get off the internet.

I detest drama, I detest these petty little squabbles, I hate that I've gotten mixed up in one. Anyone who wants to talk to me can email. So far as I'm concerned, this matter is closed.

An apology to my readers

As of late I've been a whiny, whiny bitch, and the drama recently posted is only icing on the cake, I realize. In recompene, I will post more of Poison when I get home tonight. I would do it now, but my beta has yet to send me the fixed draft.

In the meantime, have some graveyard fics. For one reason or another, these have both died on me. I thought the first might revive, but I think it's a goner.

Again, I apologize for the whining.

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Some silliness, then you can have Poison like I promised

Someone today called me immature. At this, I could only think "Duh?"

Case in point:

I was running a copy job and noticed the last name on the file was Bellfontaine. I said "Hey, I've stolen this name before. I can't remember for which story, but I know I stole this for someone's surname."

My coworkers in the copy center chatted with me about names and how one named her fish after another name we saw come through, and the one asked if I was ever going to use the name of a certain county, one of the more amusing ones -- Tippecanoe.

Yes, that is said exactly the way it looks. I asked three natives before I believed anyone. Tip A Canoe. That is how it's said.

My response was thus:

"If I ever write a really bad western thing, I'm so naming the Indian that. It's over. Done. Poor Indian."

So, yes. Best never to be in public with me especially when the suckers give me sugar.

( Okay, now you can have Poison )