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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
I mean, I can see why authors would hope that people would be sensitive to their feelings (we all wish that, right?) but to expect it and rail against the opposite, well, shoulda maybe picked a different career.
Edited to add: It's not that I'm insensitive to author's feelings, I just don't feel it's my job to have to deal with them personally, ya know?
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Myself, I'd be a lot more impressed with such authors and sensitive to their feelings if they showed the same consideration to others that they demanded of everyone else.
Unfortunately, most of the time they act like super special snowflakes whose every action should be excused because they're
creative, don'tchaknow and everyone else is a pixel-stained technopeasant wretch who should bow down before the altar of their precious
creativity (which, incidentally, the daily KDP slushpile trawl has managed to lower my overall opinion of not merely into the gutter, but straight underground into the
Via Cloaca; I suspect that after the 90-days-free period of the initial KDP Select experiment, this will need to be expressed in geological strata).
Sure, that YA author felt bad that her book wasn't viewed well by a reader and would have preferred a kinder and gentler and more loving review, but she herself didn't hold back when calling the reviewer a "beyotch", besides slamming her as an evil person personally, rather than someone whose reach may have exceeded their grasp when it came to expressing themselves, even if they were only doing a review instead of a full book like she was. The irony, it bludgeons!
Anyway, I'm mainly commenting to link the excellent Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal cartoon on:
How to Communicate with Writers, which provides very useful tips to all of us lowly reader peons.