The only stacking I do is my TBR pile

I was going to write a blog post today about authors not being capable of FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS (not all of them, obviously) (and I’m one of them, LOL) but I’ve just noticed that Keta Diablo has had a right paddy over at her blog about a not-favourable review she had on Speak Its Name. And the camel’s back just broke.

Normally this wouldn’t bother me one iota, but this does for two reasons. 1. She keeps  insisting that I wrote the review and I did not, despite the fact that I have told her this and 2.  brings up a larger point, which I’m going to hash out to myself here, because frankly I’m sick of sitting on my hands and being the better person when everyone and his dog is entitled to bitch—which is that of “authors who review.”

Notice I didn’t say that “should authors review?” because there’s no such thing as “should anyone do anything.”

Ms Diablo makes the most amazing statement right at the top of her blog, which flies in the face of everything I’ve ever known about writers, and the art of writing, and all the advice about writing I’ve ever read. She says:

Authors first and foremost are writers. Not readers and not reviewers.

My jaw dropped at that.  ( Read more... )