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Visitors from 1/30/05:

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This one's a follow-up to the Anne Rice "hissy fit" (from Blog of a Book Slut): Other writers give their opinion.

Backstory: MJ Rose's new blog for published authors to give the stories behind their novels.

I didn't get any writing done yesterday, but I did finish cleaning the kitchen, including the floor. I'm off next week and plan to get some writing done. I still think I can meet my informal, maybe, whatever goal of finishing the draft by the end of the year. There are some holidays I can use for writing, too, like Veterans Day.

By now, most people have probably heard about the Anne Rice flap over a review on Amazon.

Neil Gaiman had a few things to say about it.

Tingle Alley had a good entry on this, along with quotes from and a link to a blog entry on Rice's views on editing.

This is truly scary. I've been seeing this everywhere. On LiveJournal. On rasfc. On blogs about publishing and writing, found in the greater blogsphere. And the most frightening aspect of this, to me, is that Rice is a novelist of great popularity and fame, unlike the poor hapless writer whose recent PublishAmerica book was ridiculed throughout cyberland, including here. Nevermind that I never liked Rice's books. I tried and couldn't get into Interview With a Vampire. Rice should have known better than to get herself into this flap and I have no sympathy for her. You walk into the mud, you have to expect to get dirty. And when you put your writing out there, you have to expect not everyone will fawn over you, in public or in private. And the internet, as a rasfc member rightly pointed out, makes it very easy for folks to speak their minds, even if what comes out is inflammatory. Shame on Ms. Rice for taking the bait. I'm not thrilled to read her thoughts on the editing process, either. She's not setting a good example for newbies, at all.