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).

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.

Maybe we could have a cage fight between her and Anne Rice.

Here you go: Anne Rice: looney or egotist?

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.

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.

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

When a person is asserting she has no need of an editor, she ought to remember that paragraph breaks are her readers' friends. ijs

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.

I skimmed through a lot of the last LKH book I read. It's probably the first time in my life that I skimmed to get past the sex scenes rather than skimming to them. Odds are I'll get the latest at the library, just to see what, if anything, happens to Jason and Nathanial. Oh, alright, and Jean-Claude, too. Maybe he'll finally eat Richard. And by that I really don't mean porn.