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[doyle]

Buffy tie-in writer gets her raaaage on.

To all the people who think they can do better and are so generous with their criticism, I say go for it. Write your Buffy book and send it to Pocket and see how far you get, with your misspellings and lousy punctuation, and all the twisted, nonsensical sentences that violate every possible rule of grammar.

Damn, I thought Yvonne Navarro wrote Resurrecting Ravana, which I got one and a half chapters into before the redundant, crappy writing made me give up. That would have made this funnier. (She did write Paleo, Tempted Champions, the Willow Files and the Wicked Willow trilogy - anybody who's read them, are they any good?)

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[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the link. It was quite the fun to read. I haven’t read any of tie-in novels, and I cannot discuss how good they are, and don’t write as much, but I read a lot. And as a reader I find her rant utterly ridiculous. I don’t care what are the circumstances of the writing and publishing. I honestly don’t. if I read a book and I don’t like it from the first page, I’ll stop reading it. If there are typos I will notice them, and they will bother me, and I really, really don’t care that it was because editors were mean to the author, or because it was a conspiracy against the language rules. And If I don’t like the book, why wouldn’t I express it in a review? It is my right as a reader.

I can understand when fanfic authors make their own rules of accepting or not accepting critique – people here write for their own pleasure, but to hear this whining from a published author…