Dear Authors

[ifreet]

... don't be stupid in public. It's harder now, with blogs and journals and all blurring the line between thought and publication, but still.

Or at least, be stupid about something relatively low in importance. Like, say, fanfic. I mean, if you lose it over fanfic, I probably won't read your work... but I won't actually discourage others from

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[ruthless1]

So let me get this straight. What she is saying is that immigrants should take on the melting pot of America when they get here. So that means all the Hasidic Jews need to stop dressing differently right? Especially the immigrant ones. Right? I mean - they make their women shave their heads after they get married and as a free Jewish woman - I just cannot tolerate that.
Headdesk does not even begin to describe my response. I really really loved her book Speed of the Dark. It liberated autism from this horrible fringe dwelling that most fiction had relegated it to. And now I can't be buying any more copies to give to my friends with autistic children. I actually had a really wonderful conversation with her at a con about that book. I was so impressed with it.
God damn her and her ugliness. She has a right to her opinion but it is WRONG!

[ifreet]

I believe she's joined forces with the "but Islam is a special case!" idiots. She would presumably never infringe upon anyone else's right to worship as they see fit, though preferably they should do it the American way... whatever that is.

I personally find it very difficult to draw a curtain between authors and their works (and the less I know about my favorite classic authors, I feel, the better), but if that work is already meaningful to you, it might be worth trying to detach the two? I have become a big fan of used bookstores when it comes to authors I am annoyed at over lesser things, like certain anti-fanfic media-tie-in authors. I get to read the book, but someone else already paid their residuals.