It’s not patrolling, but defending my integrity in the comments on a story about me—since people like you keep implying I’m a liar. I don’t give a crap whether or not you like my work. I do give a crap when jerks like you on the internet decide you have the right to call me dishonest. Read more
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No, I’ve have the same editor for years—and an editor doesn’t change the tone, she edits. I set the tone, and the tone may very well have changed and evolved after 30 plus books, as the characters either change and evolve or become stagnant. For me characters who don’t grow equal kiss of death in a long-running… Read more
What’s wrong with you? You, who do NOT know me, are calling me a liar. Read more
You’re absolutely entitled not to like the book—or any book. I’d never argue with a reader about how one of my books hits—or doesn’t hit him or her. Reading is personal. I’m entitled to be proud of my work, whether or not that particular book resonated for an individual reader.
Appreciate that.
That’s my good friend Marianne Willman. We didn’t write together, but had novellas in the same anthologies. Btw, I have no plans to stop writing the In Death series.
And hello Twitter—I may not Tweet but I hear things. I write my own comments, too. I don’t have a team. I have me. If it has my name on it—book, comment, whatever—I fracking wrote it. What’s so hard to understand about that?
I will say again, because this is smearing my integrity. I write my own books. Every word. You may find you don’t like them. You may find one that doesn’t ring for you, but I wrote it. It’s insulting to have a reader decide otherwise because something didn’t work for them.
I write ALL my own books. You didn’t like one, that’s fine. But I wrote it. I very much object to being accused by someone who doesn’t know me of doing something I consider unethical. I write every book with my name on it. No ghost writer, no co-authors, no team. Me. Period. Nora