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Originally Posted by Blossom
I remember the Kennedy husband incident. I myself can't blame an author's husband's for wanting to stick up for his wife. The author apologized and was deeply embarrassed.
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Most times, I wouldn't either, because other peoples' behaviour up until you find out about is generally out of one's control.
But what one can control is one's own responses to the situation once revealed. And I have to admit, I'm not too impressed with the author's apology, which seemed like a rather dismissive brush-off of the incident which involved her husband, if that's really who it was,
stalking and insulting and making allegations about the other author who was the reviewer, as well as leaving a negative review on the reviewer's own book in retaliation.
Frankly, she phrased it more like a vague excuse-making fauxpology "
I apologize if this has created any problems", rather than offering regrets, sincere or otherwise, that the incident happened and acknowledging that someone else was in fact negatively affected by her husband's actions.
So, minus points from me because from my perspective it does come across as "I'm sorry
you say you were offended by something someone near me did on my behalf" rather than "I'm sorry someone near me did something offensive on my behalf". Comment #15 in the
Dear Author post puts it more eloquently, IMHO.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
The way I look at it is we read romance stories about heroes who stick up for their heroines all the time. If we can't look past that we shouldn't be reading this genre because it full of men who do things like that.
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Well... I'm personally not exactly reading romances for that. Also, there's sticking up, and then there's the
"I'm not sure if this is going to be helpful or not, but I'm the kind of person to throw gasoline on a fire. sometimes it puts the fire out, sometimes it just makes it worse." style of husband-championing that Laurell K. Hamilton's spouse also engages in.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
I say take a chance on Elves books. I do have them all but haven't read them yet. They do look interesting which is why I grabbed them.
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My library doesn't have them in e- (maybe in paper) and they are kind of interesting, which is why I think I'd like to read the others. (BTW, don't read the opening sample chapter for Lord of Illusion because it will spoiler you for what seem to be the important plot resolutions in the first two books.)
But the author's casual rug-sweeping-under behaviour in regards to how her husband's repeatedly harassing behaviour towards a reader who turned out to be another author is sufficiently off-putting that I think I'll go with the Galen after all (unless
her husband's been sockpuppeting, in which case I'll probably go spend my credits in June and hope that between the probably-Viking book and the time-travel book, they've got an "entered her like she was a lottery" level of combined entertainment crack if nothing interesting is sneak-peeked for July).
Mind you, it's relatively minor enough that I'm not going to cut Kennedy entirely from consideration and I'd be perfectly willing to buy the others in this particular series and her older Victorian shapeshifter one which was an ex-Dorchester freebie which Sourcebooks is reprinting, which I started on the 1st in series of earlier today and is also interesting enough to continue with (and indeed, does seem somewhat better written than the Elven Lord one at points).
But only if they dropped to the promo sale price of $1.99 less DANL membership discount or Kobo coupons, which is what I've decided the market value of her books are worth to me now, down from the $3.20 I was willing to pay earlier today, due to the value-subtract of Author Behaving Badly.
I vote with my wallet when it comes to these things, and my wallet says that Galen should probably get the bump from my membership selection which if popular enough, may result in greater spotlight and promotion for her books in the future, and if I really want to read them before then, I can check the library for Kennedy's books instead until their adjusted sale price drops below the $1.67 worth of my membership cost that Galen's book is going for now.
And if it turns out that Galen's book is indeed close enough to my kind of slightly spoofy fun historical-ish fun adventure thing and she's got more like it, then bonus!, I've discovered a 2nd romance author whose selected works of interest I can read at a particular price point I'm willing to pay should they be featured/sale-priced again in the future.
This… would probably not be a 15% off coupon-winning comment in the Discover A New Love blog on "Why did you choose your May book?".