When authors respond to readers RE: Anne Rice Strikes Back

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Dina Lerret" <redina at s...> 
wrote:
> 
> I'm almost kinda glad JKR doesn't do in-depth responses to negative
> readers.  Yeah, I can get annoyed by her 'c*cktease' method and 
peculiar
> responses to fans' preferences on certain characters, but so far, 
nothing
> that makes me go *facepalm*.

> 
> Dina

Kudos to you, Dina, for the courage to use a perfectly appropriate 
word that does indeed describe JKR's method with some fans, thereby 
braving the wrath of the PC police.  I wonder if I as a male, could 
do the same.

Anne Rice/Rampling/I forget her third "nom de plume" is not in JKR's 
league.  She lost me as a reader with The Vampire Lestat.  I wonder 
if her interaction with online fandom hurt her later writing. 

Haggridd