Comments on: REVIEW: Romantic Times Update: RT confirms Comment by Kathryn Falk

By: Cat Marsters

Cat Marsters — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:03:48 +0000

[quote comment="27634"]… er, “she” being Kathryn Falk, not Cat Marsters. Just to clarify.[/quote]

Yeah, I’m way cooler than you, Amelia *snort*

By: Dear Author.Com | RT Update: Comment by Rosemary Potter and Margaret Bell

Dear Author.Com | RT Update: Comment by Rosemary Potter and Margaret Bell — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:37:01 +0000

[...] Potter and Margaret Bell left a note here regarding the Falk comment and I felt important to bring attention to it. Not because I want [...]

By: Rosemary Potter

Rosemary Potter — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:20:58 +0000

Hi Everyone

It has recently been brought to our (Margaret Bell and I) attention by some concerned bloggers (thanks very much for advising us) that a rather inflammatory post was made by Kathryn Falk and co-signed by Margaret and myself.

I would like to confirm that Margaret and I were guests of Kathryn's at the time the post was made, however we were out sightseeing in Galveston all day and were not aware of what had transpired.

Having read the post, we would like to state that for the record that this “Rhetoricâ€? does not represent either Margaret's or my views. We have further advised said blogger of our feelings on the matter.

As Australian Book Sellers and Lovers of Romance, we love all aspects of our business and quite frankly this kind of bullshit just pisses us off.

We are all about, putting Romance into our readers' hands, giving authors the opportunities to talk to Aussie readers, selling autographed/personalized books, distributing Pre-release bookmarks and giving readers the best service possible.

All of these things make a difference to readers and authors, keep the good stuff coming.

Cheers
Rosemary and Margaret
Australian Book Sellers

By: Don

Don — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:51:40 +0000

[quote comment="27623"]I’ve seen fifteen-year-old fanpoodles whine less.
[/quote]

::snicker:: Excellent.

I’ve wandered into this drama peripherally. It’s a fascinating train wreck of a thing.

Must. Stop. Reading!

By: Ann Wesley Hardin

Ann Wesley Hardin — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:26:31 +0000

How about Crock Opera?

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:26:24 +0000

It’s a smut opera, or a blog opera?

…anyway, there should be a word for it.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:26:01 +0000

This is better than a soap opera

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:47:07 +0000

Please note, Mediabistro’s GalleyCat has picked up this story and is running with it. Oof.

By: Amelia Elias

Amelia Elias — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:10:46 +0000

… er, “she” being Kathryn Falk, not Cat Marsters. Just to clarify.

By: Amelia Elias

Amelia Elias — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:09:28 +0000

Ahh. Thanks for clearing that up, Kate R. Yes, Cat Marsters bought me a title from Sealand, and that officially makes me way cooler than she is now.

Lady Amelia of Sealand *snerk*

By: PJ

PJ — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:15:57 +0000

I’ve seen fifteen-year-old fanpoodles whine less.

I’m really, really tempted to start reading romances again and sum them up with either “Sucked” or “Didn’t Suck”, and let this person and her ilk bewail themselves to death.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:53:22 +0000

Un-named business men wo object to male semi-nudes but not the fully nake menage material right next to it.

riiiiiiight. And they were fee-paying conference attendees too?

I smell an excuse.

By: azteclady

azteclady — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:15:05 +0000

(Coming over from SmartBitches)

Gretchen, just so you know, it’s not the ‘handful of blogging women’ who matter, but the many thousands who read the ‘handful’ of blogs. And the people with whom they share what they read online.

By: Kate R

Kate R — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:09:01 +0000

AE,
She’s kind of like you. she bought her title. (yours was a gift) She’s amurican

By: Alison Kent

Alison Kent — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:08:10 +0000

Your blog or any other's isn't all that important.

Funny how Ms. Falk found it important enough to waste over 2500 words accusing a blogger of all manner of things, including causing resignations and suicide contemplations …

By: Amelia Elias

Amelia Elias — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:29:23 +0000

… wow. I still can’t bring myself to believe that was real. I mean, I read that entire looooooooooonnnnngggg comment and could hardly see how it even applied to the blog or the comment-discussion that was going on. No specifics were ever mentioned, so I really thought it was a hoax. Damn.

No, I’m sorry, I’m still on the fence. Say it ain’t so, I don’t want to believe it. Please tell me it was some random crazy person! I have no interest in Falk aother than the fact I think it’s cool to be a Lady of something… then again, nobility used to be so inbred that they frequently went off their rockers, so who am I to say it’s impossible?

By: Bev(BB)

Bev(BB) — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:15:53 +0000

[quote comment="27597"]Holy shit. I really thought it would be a fake. I guess even nut jobs have careers. Ugh.

CindyS[/quote]

I think I was hoping it would be fake but suspected it wouldn’t be. No reason except that it was just so unexpected I guess.

By: CindyS

CindyS — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:04:11 +0000

Holy shit. I really thought it would be a fake. I guess even nut jobs have careers. Ugh.

CindyS

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 03 May 2007 03:15:30 +0000

Is that I what I have to do to get my own tag on dearauthor ;)

By: Jackie L.

Jackie L. — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:28:49 +0000

Oh, man, I hate this!!! I had to get out my unabridged dictionary to verify that the word is VITUPERATIVE, not viputerative. Doesn’t Ms. Falk have spell check? Actually, it was a good exercise. I ran across another good word–vitriolic. Yeah, that’s it–Ms. Falk penned a vitriolic note about bad bloggers.