Comments on: WE ARE ALL ROMANCE AUTHORS

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:08:53 +0000

Susan - it’s useless to fight with each other. It gains us nothing.

Charli - Exactly.

Sela - you didn’t hijack - that’s on point. I suppose that’s where my main point of annoyance was. The letter started out consescending and it only got worse. It’s laden with assumptions and well, you know what they say about assumptions.

Mechele - well yes.

NJ - yep, a total waste of energy

Christine - I don’t think the majority of authors do. But then things happen and people begin to feel defensive and lash out but it doesn’t help to do that.

Ann - you didn’t miss much

Ciar - you make me blush!

By: Ciar Cullen

Ciar Cullen — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:41:50 +0000

Dear confused reader from the outside–you are the only one who counts. Okay, the writers and publishers count too, but if you find a writer you adore, like LD here, you don’t give a dang what organizations she belongs to, that’s my guess. She writes good books, whether the cover says Spice or Samhain or Ellora’s Cave. You don’t need to pay attention to the rest, and I’m beginning to think the rest of us should give it less emphasis. As usual, a great post Lauren.

By: Ann Aguirre

Ann Aguirre — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:49:31 +0000

Hmmm, I didn’t read it. I think the maid thew it away, actually. She cleans my desk for me if I let it get too cluttered, which is sometimes good and sometimes bad if I had stuff piled in a particularly cunning way.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:02:28 +0000

I don’t understand why is there this constant pitting of writers against each other as if you have chose sides. Confused reader looking from the outside.

By: N.J. Walters

N.J. Walters — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:35:58 +0000

We’re all writers trying to build a successful career. And those of us who write for e-publishers work just as hard, if not harder, than those with New York Publishers.

There is no need for one group to be disparaging the other. We’re all romance writers and the rest of the literary world is only to ready to do it for us.

By: Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen

Mechele Armstrong aka Lany of Melany Logen — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:50:15 +0000

Amen Lauren.

That post in RWR has grated on me since I read it. It rubbed the wrong way.

We are all in this together. I wish some people would figure that out.

By: Sela Carsen

Sela Carsen — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:12:21 +0000

Yep, read that post, too, Lauren.

I’ve been peeved for a couple of days now and I’m getting tired. Honestly, I pick my fights and the RWR one is the hill I choose to die on. I only wish that what I say would make any difference.

When people outside the industry say things because they don’t know any better, I get all excited because it’s an opportunity to inform them. When people inside the industry say things out of sheer bloody-minded stupidity, I usually keep my mouth shut because everyone’s entitled to their opinion. No matter what I say about them in my head.

But this one just grated me raw. She asked for opinions and then got huffy when they weren’t the ones she liked.

*sigh* Sorry. Didn’t mean to hijack your comments section, but I really enjoyed your post. Hoping to follow in your footsteps, too.

Now if I only I could finish writing the damn book!

By: Charlene

Charlene — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:01:55 +0000

Ah. Read the new RWR, then?

Everybody’s career is individual, what’s right for one person is wrong for another, and that’s true in both epublishing AND traditional publishing. And the same thing can be right for a person at one time and wrong at another, because things change and goals change.

Really, what we all need are tools and accurate information to make informed decisions for ourselves. And not compare our careers to anybody else’s.

By: Susan Helene Gottfried

Susan Helene Gottfried — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:23:22 +0000

I’m NOT a romance writer, but I’m with you in the us versus them mentality where print publishers versus e-publishers are concerned.

There’s room for all of you publishing folks. Stop fighting and play nice — you might find out there’s more room than you realized.

Ya know?