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I was awful when I got here.
Four years later I can say I have improved to just plain bad.
Anne Rice signs petition to protest bullying of authors on Amazon
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I was awful when I got here.
Four years later I can say I have improved to just plain bad.
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JAMESBJOHNSON
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Oh STOP!
Yes you went from awful to superior AND you have a good attitude that made your improvement swift.
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Thank, for the compliment, but I have a long way to go.
And my attitude in general sucks, but I'm someone who's always looking to try to up my game and writing is no different.
You get bashed a lot here JB(and I know you like it) but I'll state right here publicly that you've been a huge help to me because unlike many here I am not sensitive and can handle being told "are you kidding" and use that as motivation to get better.
So thanks for lighting the fire under my ass.
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Your improvement is entirely your own making, and no mob pulls your barge for you. I think youll go far.
Speaking of cranks, looking back I recall the cranky old bastards with fondness. Not the abusive assholes, but the Dutch uncles who cared but didn't fear my opinion of them or fear my improvement.
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Not that there's anything new in that happening.
Saith the biggest troll in the AH
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Ironically, when LC's posting was brought to my attention, I was busy helping a Lit. author get a story unrejected--the second time in two days. Wonder what LC was doing.
He wasn't being a blowhard.
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Bullying goes both ways. As noted in the other Rice thread recently, AR is not above sending her fans out to harass people who disparage her books so I don't have a lot of sympathy for her on this one; if I were reviewing one of her books I would want to remain anonymous, and there are several other big-name celebs who are quite happy to pull similar stuff.
Plenty of other legit reasons for anonymity, from "I don't want my neighbours knowing I read erotica" to "I'd rather not out myself as a gay Russian/trans woman/etc". The "cure" she's advocating is worse than the problem.
Surely readers can see for themselves whether a review is anonymous, and decide for themselves how much trust to give it?
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Yep, Rice is known for bullying. Nora Roberts does this occasionally on discussion forums too.
Unfortunately, discussion board readers aren't all very adept about weighing the sources of advice, though. That's one of the great fallacies of the Internet world--that everyone is equal in knowledge on a given topic just because they have equal access to posting on the Internet.
Unfortunately, discussion board readers aren't all very adept about weighing the sources of advice, though. That's one of the great fallacies of the Internet world--that everyone is equal in knowledge on a given topic just because they have equal access to posting on the Internet.
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In terms of trolling, wonder what Zeb was doing as well while I've been helping a Lit. author unreject a story.
My "not anything new" comment is being illustrated nicely.
I wasn't bragging about helping others like a blowhard, that's for sure.
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Ironically, when LC's posting was brought to my attention, I was busy helping a Lit. author get a story unrejected--the second time in two days. Wonder what LC was doing.
Translation: I can't stop reading LC's posts because I need to know everything he is saying.
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I wasn't bragging about helping others like a blowhard, that's for sure.
Score.
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Rice should post her erotica here. This is a Bully-Free Zone.
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What does Rice's erotica and her Vampire books have in common?
They're both about pussies.
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Actually, the ones I read were more about asses. Lots and lots of asses.
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Yeah, 'cuz you can't say pussy in a mainstream book about pussy.
I don't think that's it. I think that she feels like she has to up the ante with each sequel. The pussies were no longer novel after the first one. The third Beauty book had so much ass whipping and things being shoved in asses, I was bored by the end of chapter two. I never finished it. I'd rather read my own shit.
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So she's an ass woman? Interesting.
Oh yes. She is.
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Yeah, 'cuz you can't say pussy in a mainstream book about pussy.
To make it fiction/romance instead of erotica you have to call it "down there"
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To make it fiction/romance instead of erotica you have to call it "down there"
Oh, so it's about Australia?
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Oh, so it's about Australia?
Well, Australia is known for it's Bush... http://s28.postimg.org/3plcmugah/60_52014.gif
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