Blog flog: judge her not by the size of her... event

[pith]

Blog Flog: STRANGE CANDY (so important, it needs all caps, baby!)
Link: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/10/strange-candy.html

LKH in bold.

Comments

[catskin]

I've said it elsewhere tonight, but...

Fucking patronising, condescending, delusional, woman! In addition to vomiting in an envelope and sending it to her, I would now also like to stab her in the eye with a stiletto. Does this make me violent and irrational?

[rantingmule]

No, it's proof you've read her books and/or blog, little else.

As a friend of mine once said, "sometimes you just gotta take a fork and choke a bitch." :P It applies to how I feel about LKH.

[catskin]

Lol, I think I need something bigger than a fork to express the true depths of my rage. A harpoon, maybe.

[kawaii_neko23]

"...that have not done four hundred, or more people night after night."

"I don't even have to say it, do I?"

OMG, that had me seriously cracking up I had to post. I just joined this board and I'm so happy I've found people who feel the same way I do. Flog On!

[dwg]

I read that entry and was so terribly torn. A) yes, it's entirely possible that people have lives and don't want to go out to LKH launches every other week, but B) maybe it's because people are being polite and saying "We'll catch you next time." when they really mean, "We'll turn up to an event worth going to - like when you publish a decent book."

Both are valid arguments for the poor turnout, however, two hundred is nothing to be sneezed at. I'm used to launches that only have about fifty people. At best. Not even the allure of free booze and nibbly things got our numbers up.

[rantingmule]

FREE BOOZE AND NIBBLY THINGS?!? DUDE I'M SO THERE. ;)

*cough* Seriously, she's freaking obnoxious. Her "fame" has gone to her OMG DARKITY DARK OF DARKNESS head. :P

[dwg]

We tend to have really great nibbly things - the free booze tends to be a bit of a lucky dip, some years it's good, other's it's not. Last major launch that I went to, I wound up taking home a bottle of Jacob's Creek [is people] chardonnay...that I never got to drink because my dad drank it all and tried to make it up to me by getting chateau du cardboard cask. Dammit, I had Jacob's Creek! I had people hitting on me in the street just because I was walking around the city while carrying a bottle of wine. @.@

This year, I have dibs on a free bottle of champagne. I hope I get one. *am a sucker for bubbly*

But yes, we have a lovely lady that does catering and we love her to bits. She does these mini quiches that are sublime.

[pith]

The numbers depend on the market. When I was working at my university's press, we were lucky to have fifty people too-and that was including Press staff and faculty members. But for a "best selling author" who claims to be introducing women to ... well, everything, pretty much... if she's the hotshot she claims to be, I'm surprised she hasn't tried selling out an arena yet.

[freyalorelei]

writers that have not done four hundred, or more people night after night.

I swear, the woman sets herself up for mockery. We don't have to lift a finger. Fish in a barrel, people.

So many familiar faces... [........] Maybe because you're really not attracting that many new readers.

BULLSEYE. Absolutely.

She's so...oblivious. I constantly marvel that someone can be that out of touch with reality.

Jon and I are secure enough to let this one be a smaller signing.

O.O Wow. That's...I can't even articulate the amount of fucked-up-ness in that one sentence. Although, being me, I will try.

1. "Jon and I": What does Jon have to do with your writing career? (Besides apparently EVERYTHING.) Trust me, honey, no one's there to see Jon.

2. "Secure enough": Wow, overcompensating much?

3. "Let this be": Gee, how gracious of you.

Any time LKH mentions her self-esteem, it's in a petulant, childish way: "I AM secure! I AM!" She presents conflicting views of herself: either a totally self-confident kick-ass womyn with the uberperfect life and the

[nightangel486]

If she's not on medication, she sure as hell needs to be...

[ladyravana]

writers that have not done four hundred, or more people night after night.

We all know that she has no concept of the double entendre...

I swear, the woman sets herself up for mockery. We don't have to lift a finger. Fish in a barrel, people.

It really is. Sad, isn't it?

She's so...oblivious. I constantly marvel that someone can be that out of touch with reality.

You're not the only one. O___o

[witchwillow]

Paxil for Psychopaths. Or at least that's what friends of mine have said. I had a similar experience. It freaked me out and I stopped taking it and told my doctors " No more drugs". It's quite startling to feel absolutely nothing.

Although, would LKH still come across as insecure ?