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[neadods]

Dear Author isn't just one of my tags, it's a blog. (Not by me.) In this post, an author illustrates how to never get another good review in her life.

I have had someone do that to me, by the way. Not get in my face over a bad review (surprising, considering how many options there are; I'd better be wearing track shoes if I ever meet Hess... or perhaps she should be, because the problem with insulting people is sometimes they find out about it and Have Opinions In Return.) No, this is a woman who got up in my face because I objected to being handed 300+ unbound, unnumbered sheets to review and sniffed that I obviously didn't know a lot about real authors and real publishing if I was going to be THAT way.

(The garbage can was That Way over yonder, which is all I'm going to say about the fate of that one.)

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[twistedchick]

FWIW, I agree with you re Hess, whom I saw being rude to attendees at one of the early Malices that was in Bethesda. I wasn't impressed with her then and I haven't been impressed since then. (I also wasn't impressed at that point with the reasoning for giving that year's Agatha: "well, let's give it to her because she's so nice and she hasn't gotten one yet." As opposed to giving it to someone who wrote good books...)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

She was rude right to their faces? That takes a TON of nerve, *especially* if she thinks that's going to sell her books!

[twistedchick]

Yes -- though it was in a small group, so I doubt most attendees ever noticed. Maybe (a la Anne McCaffrey) she thought it was cute.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*eyeroll* It's like that "if I insult people they'll try to work to change my mind" thing that some jerk suggests as a dating technique, perhaps? The thing is, that only works if you give a rat's ass about their opinions.