I would really rather not have whiners buy my work in the first place. Not that I have turned out any work in a good long while but I found them incredibly difficult to work with and not worth my effort. Considering that all the money I made from a sale went into my pocket (minus materials) that's saying something.
I feel like a blog like this has, or will have, historical value. In the case of a published author it is especially important to future archivists, biographers and even teachers of literature that you not censor yourself because some people think they have the right to judge the opinions of others.
I'm sorry you were harassed by someone who was terribly ignorant. I say she was ignorant because Jesus didn't make the sea no matter what your religious affiliation. It is as annoying as people saying that we need to put 'under god' back in the pledge when it wasn't supposed to be in there in the first place or who argue that prostitution can't be legalised because America is 'one nation under god.' I did have a lovely vision of a bunch of guys in orange togas dancing around, handing out flowers and literature some Sunday in a church parking lot that made me laugh while reading your rant so the balance is restored.
Hang in there and ignore the trolls. It is unlikely they bought more than one book and may well have used that one to prop up the missing leg on the sofa anyway because it didn't have 57 sequels or hot vampire sex in it.
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Date: 2008-08-02 07:22 pm (UTC)I feel like a blog like this has, or will have, historical value. In the case of a published author it is especially important to future archivists, biographers and even teachers of literature that you not censor yourself because some people think they have the right to judge the opinions of others.
I'm sorry you were harassed by someone who was terribly ignorant. I say she was ignorant because Jesus didn't make the sea no matter what your religious affiliation. It is as annoying as people saying that we need to put 'under god' back in the pledge when it wasn't supposed to be in there in the first place or who argue that prostitution can't be legalised because America is 'one nation under god.' I did have a lovely vision of a bunch of guys in orange togas dancing around, handing out flowers and literature some Sunday in a church parking lot that made me laugh while reading your rant so the balance is restored.
Hang in there and ignore the trolls. It is unlikely they bought more than one book and may well have used that one to prop up the missing leg on the sofa anyway because it didn't have 57 sequels or hot vampire sex in it.