Yer not the boss of ME!

LOLLOLLOLLOL

K--so after several quiet days, the blog stuff has begun again and this time, I HAD to laugh. I mean, out loud, rolled around on the floor until I asked my mom to get me the Depends, kind of laughing.

You know the blog I mean. You also know I can't link to the actual post, cuz I'm just not that smart. The nice author lady doesn't think I'm that smart either. She said she wasn't impressed by the intelligence of some folks who responded to her blog. Could have been me, might not have been. I'll take it as a blanket statement and assume, cuz I disagreed with her and NO one is going to boss her around, she meant me too.

Neener, neener, neener.

Okay, so first, I read the bit about how the blog folk are mad at her again. Well, again would imply more than once. Which to me, would imply that you've got the offesive thing down to a science. Naturally, the author has no clue why because said author is innocent of all charges geared toward offending anyone, right? I gotta wonder why she gets so much hate mail or whatever she calls it if she's sooooooo non-offensive. She must make a couple of people mad and two, to me, would imply she rubs a crowd the wrong way, yes?

I dunno, math was never my subject. LOLLOL

Okay then, she wasn't sure why erotic authors would comment on her blogs. She doesn't, in her mind, share fans with us naughty girls (my words, not hers). However, I hate to be the one to tell her, but I thrived on Inspirational romances as a kid. They were the only ones my mom let me read. Yet, I write erotic romances. It's just a fun genre. However, I'm not going to pit the two genre's against one another, but I will say, we DO share fans. Well, duh. How'd ya suppose this all began? Because you offended a shared fan. A fan of your work that wanted to enter a contest you said she couldn't. I can read inspirational romances if I want and YOU can't tell me I can't.

Yer not the boss of me. LOLLOL

She claimed we all "picked up the cry" when one of our "own" (one who obvioulsy drank the juice) was offended. Er, yeah, cuz we agreed with her and I do believe, I agreed with my friend very respectfully. It's true. Yet, when one of her "own" picked up the cry, that's not the same thing? When they agree with her, isn't that the same thing as "picking up the cry"? Only it's in her favor, so I guess, it isn't the same thing as when we cry.

Boo hoo.

Anyhoodles, then she said she doesn't blog for traffic and if I were smart enough, I'd go back and read through the one blog post where she directly contradicts that statment. I just can't remember which post it was. She posted what she did on her blog to begin with for the same reason I posted horse puckey back. Cuz it's horse puckey and she wants to justify, validate her plight, whatevah AND books shall sell.

If you didn't want people to come read your spin, why bother to post about e-mails and contests that no one needed to know about? OY--who are we kidding here??? She didn't do it because she was on a valiant quest to find answers and address her readers. She apparently has them ALL so she sure as heck don't need 'em from Y-O-U. Snort.

Cuz yer not the boss of me. LMAO

She also prefers well mannered people who can have civilized discussions. Sigh, um, okay and what about that particular convo wasn't civilized? it wasn't civilized if you didn't break out the shrine and altar to her, is when it wasn't civilized anymore, is my supposition.

She then went on to say that the kind of bloggers who rant and whip others (readers) into a frenzy aren't the kind of readers she wants. Yeah, riiiiight. You want 'em ALL, baby and if that statement above were true--you'd have never allowed one of your buds to begin those first posts with words like selfish.

Then, of course, the comments began. Again, with the one woman who gets a wee bit zealous in the defense of her friend. But that's okay. it's just not okay for the rest of us to do it too. You keep that in mind, would ya? Do remember your place, you unecessary root of all uncivilized discussion. LOLLOL

Then, the comments got whacky, so prepare to have the comments turned off pronto. One lady said some people put the "more" in moron. However, don't be fooled. That sort of backhanded comment will NEVER whip folks into a frenzy and I wouldn't call it "rabid" at all, would you? She said people were peeing around the perimeter of this authors blog. I kinda liked that analogy. it was funny. I snorted. I did. She said those who baited, ranted ect were trying to call attention to themselves. But never mistake the author's original post as trying to draw attention to herself. No, no. That wasn't it at all. Remember, she was on a valiant quest to post something of interest to her readers...I'd pee in my own backyard if a friend and fan of mine wasn't inadvertantly invited to pee elsewhere. Ya feel me here?

One blog commentor said it best--you generated interest in your books and that can't be a bad thing, can it?

Yeeeeahh, baby. That's right, it can't be a bad thing. If it were a bad thing and we were turning the other cheek, then this newest post never would have happened, would it?

My last blog about it was because I was a bit outraged by the comment off deal. I'm not ashamed to say I like a good discussion. I'm not ashamed to say I blogged because it was interesting and I wanted people to come read about it. Especially because I don't much get into the controversial stuff. Folks are surprised when I do. Every so often a blog posts gives me a reason to piggyback and blog about something other than R and I and our endless twisted romance. Does it bring me traffic--yep. Is that good? Yep. Did I much care if I got traffic before--yep. But I didn't care for the reasons I'll be undoubtedly be accused of. I don't blog much controversial stuff, so the majority of whatever I post is just fun stuff. I want people to read my blog and giggle. In some intances, I want to get ops, but I don't normally blog about much that's problem oriented because I lay low.

Except when I see some pretty blatant crap.

I didn't lay low this time because I was shocked at the rather two faced slant I was feeling after reading the comments. I was raised a Christian and opinions were encouraged, but the high handed arrogant stuff wasn't something that entered into it much. We didn't thump our bibles. We just quietly tried to be good people.

So after my post, I forgot about it until a friend of mine mentioned the newest post. I knew I'd get a giggle from it--so I read and watched and read some more.

See, if this weren't about liking a bit of controversy, if it wasn't about wanting a little pat on the back from your buds, if it wasn't about selling a book, then what was it about? If you're so good at not engaging folks in an argument--then what was this post about? It was insulting and condescending to some of the commentors, 'twould seem. That's what it was. Again, I say, why tell anyone about things that occur privately if you don't want to stir the old pot? None of us knew who trafficked the authors blog. Though she mentions the mucho traffic she had. It doesn't list names so we can all say, "Oooooh, look who was here." So who gave a rats fuzzy butt? Sure, lot's of people looked at it--they looked at it because the author made a bold statement, but she also turned the coments OFF, so there was nothing left to do but move on. She had as far as I knew. Her next post was about cookies, or something.

So why start all over again?

This post was about no one telling this author what she could and couldn't do.

I'm tellin' ya, when I read some of the blog posts, all I could think was, you're NOT the boss of me. It rings throughout.

And it cracked me up.

Oh and it's nothing to her if you read her blog. Man, she has a way with words, huh? Don't you feel all warm and fuzzy when you're dismissed? I had to wonder if her lurking fans felt a bit slighted by the idea that she could care less who reads her blog. We'll never know because they don't post and probably won't after being slapped down. She claims to want to emulate other bloggers who blog about things of interest. Shoot, I sure hope folks don't blog like this all the time about their readers. That's one hell of a form of flattery if she does, in fact, emulate them.

Does she have any clue how utterly crass that last crack may sound to someone who may have already been upset by her "I won't ship to the overseas folks" comments. Talk about digging the proverbial hole in an already big, honkin' ditch.

And you are NOT the boss of her. LOLLOL

Dakota :)