Comments for Michele Lee http://michelelee.net Breathe: Words Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:52:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Review: Zombie Writing! So You Want To Write About Zombies? edited by Armand Rosamilia by Michele Lee http://michelelee.net/2012/01/22/review-zombie-writing-so-you-want-to-write-about-zombies-edited-by-armand-rosamilia/comment-page-1/#comment-12513 Michele Lee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:52:56 +0000 http://michelelee.net/?p=4577#comment-12513 I do look forward to seeing your name cross my reading list again :) I do look forward to seeing your name cross my reading list again :)

]]> Comment on Review: Zombie Writing! So You Want To Write About Zombies? edited by Armand Rosamilia by Rie Sheridan Rose http://michelelee.net/2012/01/22/review-zombie-writing-so-you-want-to-write-about-zombies-edited-by-armand-rosamilia/comment-page-1/#comment-12512 Rie Sheridan Rose Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:15:26 +0000 http://michelelee.net/?p=4577#comment-12512 Thanks for the feedback. Thanks for the feedback.

]]> Comment on Guys… by Michele Lee http://michelelee.net/2012/01/05/guys/comment-page-1/#comment-12333 Michele Lee Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:28:57 +0000 http://michelelee.net/?p=4557#comment-12333 I totally agree. The author never ever should have done what she did. Never. And the review, while not "polite" as some of the commenters have said is far, far from outright nasty. It didn't warrant that kind of response period. Authors DO become public figures once they publish, which no one really warns them about. That doesn't mean how people treat public figures is right. I know it's frustrating to be "not allowed" to defend yourself/work, especially when yes, some people do get nasty just because they can, and some people do let jealousy and bitterness seep into their interactions/feelings of you/your work. I think of Laurell K Hamilton at points like this. There's a huge anti-fandom that snarks her all the time. Do I hate where he books have gone? Oh yes, and a lot of these people pick out the very things that annoy me. But then they get sucked into that mob mentality and it goes places I'm not cool with. It sucks that the general consensus is "It's okay to be nasty because she's rich/successful/an author". I absolutely do not think the author was right at all, but the mob mentality wrapped up in "punishing" her online is uncalled for. I totally agree. The author never ever should have done what she did. Never. And the review, while not “polite” as some of the commenters have said is far, far from outright nasty. It didn’t warrant that kind of response period.

Authors DO become public figures once they publish, which no one really warns them about. That doesn’t mean how people treat public figures is right. I know it’s frustrating to be “not allowed” to defend yourself/work, especially when yes, some people do get nasty just because they can, and some people do let jealousy and bitterness seep into their interactions/feelings of you/your work.

I think of Laurell K Hamilton at points like this. There’s a huge anti-fandom that snarks her all the time. Do I hate where he books have gone? Oh yes, and a lot of these people pick out the very things that annoy me. But then they get sucked into that mob mentality and it goes places I’m not cool with. It sucks that the general consensus is “It’s okay to be nasty because she’s rich/successful/an author”.

I absolutely do not think the author was right at all, but the mob mentality wrapped up in “punishing” her online is uncalled for.

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