Comments on: Authors Behaving Badly

By: Every Time I Feel Like Writing a Non-Smashing Review… | Spontaneous ∂erivation

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:57:00 +0000

[...] … I’m reminded that some authors will get insanely angry if you go with three rather than five stars. [...]

By: Julia Sullivan

Julia Sullivan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:40:25 +0000

What hasn’t been mentioned yet here is that Silman is eighty-five years old

She’s actually 75 years old (born in 1934), according to her own website.

Still, yeah, uncool. Of course, Alice Hoffman is 57, so she should be old enough to know better.

By: Maddie

Maddie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:41:18 +0000

I’ve been flamed on Amazon by readers when I gave three stars to their favorite books. It’s crazy.

Well Kelly don’t you know that YOU MUST NOT STRAY FROM THE FLOCK of FANGIRL in other words you can not express your thoughts freely with out getting reamed by some one be it an author or the rabid fangirls………….it’s becoming kind of frightful that one can not express your own thoughts REMEMBER JOE THE PLUMBER.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:40:08 +0000

Wow, and to think I’d recently decided I really oughtta get around to reading Hoffman soon.

“Till the day I die” rants are juvenile. Shooting a hole through the reviewer’s book in private is actually kind of funny. Posting the reviewer’s personal information is creepy stalker stuff.

Oh, and I’m not surprised that some take a C review as a pan. I’ve been flamed on Amazon by readers when I gave three stars to their favorite books. It’s crazy. I mean, if I’d hated it, I’d have given it one star. But I think a lot of reviewers at Amazon give everything either one star or five. They see anything below five, they assume you hated it. Whereas in my mind, most books are a 3 or 4, with 5 being for those “up all night reading, bawled at the end” sorts of books.

By: Maddie

Maddie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:08:30 +0000

I have not read any thing by A.H. and I doubt that I will after this. Not sure why some people be an author , neighbor or your co-worker in the next cubical think that they can go off on you if you voice an opinion of your own.

This sense of entitlement is kind of scary, is the fact that she make more money than the reviewer, that it’s makes her own rant legit ?

The email to her fangirls with the instruction to light it up is just downright evil does she not know that viruses can be sent thru an email that can fry her computer or that giving out some’s # and having ittied up with her looney fangirls is out and out crazy, and I think some what illegal.

By: Genrewonk » Using Twitter to promote your novel wrong

Genrewonk » Using Twitter to promote your novel wrong — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:02:50 +0000

[...] to those ten commandments of mine, from Dear Author we have word of someone, novelist Alice Hoffman, who managed to break my rules #1, #2, #4, #5 and [...]

By: Anion

Anion — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:29:35 +0000

@flip: Yeah… What hasn’t been mentioned yet here is that Silman is eighty-five years old.

In your world, it’s okay to post the home phone number of random people you’re angry at online and encourage people to call them and yell at them? It’s not that bad, in your opinion, to do that to an eighty-five-year-old woman?

This is revolting, inexcusable behavior, no matter how old the reviewer in question is, but especially given that Hoffman was too freaking lazy to even google her and discover that she is herself an award-winning author and is, again, an octogenarian.

Disgusting.

Inexcusable.

Hoffman behaved like a pissy little brat; like an immature seventh-grader. Her behavior was gross, and grossly inappropriate. I simply cannot fathom how anyone could defend it.

By: wendy

wendy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:47:00 +0000

A de B is an interesting bloke who has great passion for his subject. He’s a bit smarmy and know-it-all, but his work engages the mind. All this is to say that I am not as bright or as erudite as him but I curse in exactly the same way. Yeah, you know who, it might have happened 38 years ago but I will hate you till the day I die.

By: Jet

Jet — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:41:26 +0000

While I don’t find shooting a book particularly helpful I’m all for safe ways to burn off anger. It’s like eating a pie for gun lovers.

What really astounds me here is that as an Artist your bound to get bad reviews…. what do you think the first twenty rejection letters that most print authors get are? Theatre reviews are tough, harsh and cold, but you don’t see any Set Designer’s or lead actresses tweeting their offense at The New Yorker. Any time that you create anything someone is going to hate it: point and fact. Since when has it become exceptable for authors, e-publishers, or business people in general to completely ignore their sense of propriety and behave like two year olds? Maybe there is a pamplet or a seminar I forgot to attend but nothing makes readers, publishers, or humans run away screaming like a fresh dose of insanely over-reactive, anger-filled posting online.

I guess in a world of reality tv, trashy and trash-talking celebreties anyone with half a millimeter of talent and an online website can bring themselve down a peg on the evolutionary chart.

By: Stevie

Stevie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:36:05 +0000

Ah yes; an apology

‘conveyed by her publicist, Camille McDuffie at Goldberg McDuffie Communications’

It just oozes sincerity, doesn’t it…

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/06/did-alice-hoffman-strike-back-or-strike-out.html