Reviews
Well, I can't promise I'll blog here regularly, but I'll try. The problem with blogging is that I end up ranting about all kinds of strange things instead of writing my next novel.
For example, right now I am driving myself crazy reading the reviews of RED that have started coming in.
Reviews can be wonderful, they can be mean, they can be crazy... but all in all, a writer shouldn't take them too seriously.
Such as this reviewer, who said:
"The feel of the book, at least to me, is the author does not live the BDSM lifestyle but has read a lot about it. It does not seem to be a familiar area for the author."
Crap, you mean I've been hanging out with perverts for nearly twelve years for no good reason? Now you tell me.
But hey, at least she thinks I've done my homework. That's good, right?
Excuse me, I need to go polish Master's shoes. Or something.
For example, right now I am driving myself crazy reading the reviews of RED that have started coming in.
Reviews can be wonderful, they can be mean, they can be crazy... but all in all, a writer shouldn't take them too seriously.
Such as this reviewer, who said:
"The feel of the book, at least to me, is the author does not live the BDSM lifestyle but has read a lot about it. It does not seem to be a familiar area for the author."
Crap, you mean I've been hanging out with perverts for nearly twelve years for no good reason? Now you tell me.
But hey, at least she thinks I've done my homework. That's good, right?
Excuse me, I need to go polish Master's shoes. Or something.
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Thanks! I'm more amused than upset. But really.... what would I have to do to make this person think I was living it? Include photos of me, tied to a cross? Nah, someone else would say, "Oh, those are fakes, I saw the same pics on Facebook."
Silly reviewer - she doesn't know that you've given lectures on WIITWD ... like you said, you can't take them too seriously.
Or seriously at all.