Eek! I'd have to go look. I got this from the newspaper last night.
Mal: You were dead! Tracy: Hunh? Oh. Right. Suppose I was. Hey there, Zoe.
'The Message'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Katerina Bee - Oct 01, 2004 7:29:24 am PDT #6064 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Jessica - Oct 01, 2004 7:47:32 am PDT #6065 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
she has posted a stinging response at her own website complaining that she is offended by the "sheer outrageous stupidity of many things you've said here."
IIRC, she originally responded on Amazon, and it was deleted (either by her or by Amazon, I don't know).
Steph L. - Oct 01, 2004 7:51:45 am PDT #6066 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
fandom_wank has the whole Rice kerfluffle. Let me look.
WHY did I buy Incubus Dreams? Why?
LKH is doing a booksigning in Cincy tomorrow, and I kind of want to go to just pummel her with a great big mallet of characterization.
Betsy HP - Oct 01, 2004 7:53:02 am PDT #6067 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Maybe we could have a cage fight between her and Anne Rice.
Steph L. - Oct 01, 2004 7:54:14 am PDT #6068 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Here you go: Anne Rice: looney or egotist?
Consuela - Oct 01, 2004 7:56:13 am PDT #6069 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So she reposted the whole thing on her website? Lovely.
I loved Neil Gaiman's response to the entire thing: basically that Anne's response was understandable, and if he ever decided to say that sort of thing in public someone should take his computer away. Very sensible man.
Betsy HP - Oct 01, 2004 8:00:36 am PDT #6070 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Exactly. This is what I told my daughter, who is struggling with her first non-A grades in English: EVERYBODY hates edits. The trick is first you hate them, then you think about them, then you do them. And you hate them only in front of trusted friends.
DavidS - Oct 01, 2004 8:19:48 am PDT #6071 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh.
Her review is pure comedy gold.She pulls out all of the greatest hits: 1. "You don't understaaaaaaaaaaand me/my vision!" 2. "How dare you criticize my work/You flamed me!" 3. "BNFs and plebes both love me, you nobody!" 4. "If you don't like it, don't read it!" 5. "I don't need a beta!" 6. "I AM SO DEEP." 7. "He's not a Mary Sue! He just talks like me, reacts like me, and has all of my opinions!" 8. "You're abusing my freedom of speech with your freedom of speech!" 9. "You're just jealous and using sockpuppets!" 10. "My fans think you suck!" And many more
Topic!Cindy - Oct 01, 2004 8:27:57 am PDT #6072 of 10002
What is even happening?
When a person is asserting she has no need of an editor, she ought to remember that paragraph breaks are her readers' friends. ijs
Katerina Bee - Oct 01, 2004 8:27:58 am PDT #6073 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Oh wait, it gets better! Escape from the fetters of paragraph breaks!
“Wuss-tat.” OMG. This is killing me!!
"And no, I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself."
Apparently, this retort wasn't one of those. Or perhaps it was. Hard to tell.
hahahaha. This has made my day.