Dear Author ( Read more... )

...at least not the freelance jobs.

Because you know, if I were wandering through my lover's castle and discovered that the old lord's (the lover's father) bedchamber contained some leather straps and a whip, the first explanation I would think of would not be that the father used to beat his son, and this is why the son didn't get along with him.

Dear Author of the book I'm currently working on ( Read more... )

Just stumbled across a promo blurb saying an author is "on a par with Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan."

Now, it is in fact intended as a compliment in the review, and is used that way in the promo blurb. But is it wrong of me that I wondered if it was originally intended as a negative?

I've decided on another magical power I want. I want the power to make books written in lame, boring, overblown, or corny prose fall into a black hole of forgetfulness ( Read more... )

Dear Idiot Protagonist ( Read more... )

Dear Protagonist of the Book I'm Currently Working On ( Read more... )

if I have to work on one more goddammed pretentious, badly written novel about women struggling to remain friends while dealing with the pressures of being wives and mothers and career women, I am going to scream. I will scream twice if the pressures are really fucking ordinary. And a third time if one of them is pregnant ( Read more... )

I hate when I want to comment on a book that I'm working on. I can't mention it by title or author. Frustrating, frustrating ( Read more... )

Hmm. Usually I'm not terribly literal-minded about some of the bodytags writers use, e.g. "His eyes roamed over her" does not make me think the squishy orbs popped out of his head and rolled about.

But I just read “[dialogue] he said, grinning into her eyes" and it made me twitch. Get your mouth off my eyes!