On this site I will only be critical of dead authors. In fact maybe they have to be dead for a really long time. I haven't quite worked that part out yet. You see, I read all the time and I read friction all the time. I read books my friends have written, books to blurb by writers trying to break into the business and books written by strangers that I'm just reading for the heck of it. For me to inviserate another's work is asking for trouble for me and I know this firsthand. I'm not earning my living as a critic. I'm earning my living as a writer. Doctors don't like to testify against each other. Writer's should consider why.

All writers do not feel this way. Every Sunday I pick up the NYT Book Review and read it cover to cover. There are vast numbers of authors reviewing the work of their presumable peers and just sticking a knife between their ribs. Often, the reviewer is preparing to publish their first work of fiction and the reviewed author has enjoyed some success until the young whippersnapper smells an opportunity. Hopefully that reviewer will vanish into obscurity as fast as hell can open its gates.

Just my opinion.

So I will try to be more vigiliant about blogging but if it's blood you want, you won't get it from me.