Touched By A Crazy Person

[scott_lynch]

I received my very first batshit crank critic e-mail this morning! This is awesome. Some entity (I honestly don't know if this person is male or female, and I am leaving out the e-mail address and their pseudonymous handle) seems to have taken exception to the bits of Red Seas Under Red Skies I posted earlier. Weeks earlier, I should add. Why they

Comments

[deannahoak]

Scott, you've made my day. I was sitting here being mildly depressed, and now I'm all smiles! It's a pity I won't get to meet you at WFC. Perhaps another con.

Bravo, Bravo!

[dancingwriter]

And here's another middle-aged mother doing the same!

[anderyn]

And, while I'm late to the dance, here's a middle-aged mother and GRANDMOTHER doing just the same. And thank you very very much for the wish fulfillment part of this!

[kristine_smith]

I once received an email from someone who took me to task for not being politically correct enough. Not enough representation of a particular racial group.

Damned if you do. Damned if you don't. Just plain damned. Can't win. Don't try. Just write the books.

Welcome to Sillyville!

[gwyddon]

I refuse to be politically correct for anybody.

[digitalred93]

I guess what they say about bad publicity still being publicity because NOW I JUST WANT TO READ YOUR BOOK EVEN MORE! Ha!

[black_amnesiac]

Hear hear!

[ann1962]

Zamira Drakasha, middle-aged pirate mother of two, is a wish-fulfillment fantasy. I realized this as she was evolving on the page, and you know what? I fucking embrace it.

As a middle aged mother of two, I think this is a great thing. I am looking forward to reading it.