I don't know why, but I'm picturing Nosferatu's white shiny head on a goat body. Like, all four legs. Two feet tall. With prancy little feet.

Oh Jesus. I am so sorry that happened to you, although what a lucky break!

Change your locks? :x

:O

I'll start here: I don't believe in ghosts. I don't believe in souls. I don't believe in the afterlife. I don't feel "connected" to spirits or anything like that, and this is the only time I've had anything like this happen. But ... it happened, and it scared the piss out of me.

Oh my Jesus God. I've been reading this whole thread going "Cabinets slamming, Ouijia boards - YAWN." But your story gave me legit, serious chills. Really freaked out that my S.O. is at a wedding this weekend so I'm alone in my apartment :x

#NotAllArizonans!

"Aww, girl, with a body like that I'm gonna grab you up and never let you go. You're never gonna get free when I get my hands on you. Wait, why are you running? COME BACK! YOU'RE A BIG GIRL, YOU COULD PROBABLY WRESTLE FREE!"

I got to see him in Cabaret. It's a relatively small, intimate theater. We made eye contact and he winked. I'm still blushing, a month later.

OH I AM. Especially when I'm warm and, um, dotted with chocolate chips at all angles, and sliced thickly onto a china plate in the microwave? :x

I feel like pointing out that my real, legal name is in fact Zucchini Bread. My mom had a LOOOOONG labor.

Thank you!

Is their job to be helpful to the author? That's what editors are for. "Worst book I've ever read" says a lot more to me, as a reader, than "It didn't work for me." I would value that input, and if I disagreed with it I could write my *own* review. It's the work being critiqued ("Worst book ever!") not the author…

There is literally no evidence that this is the case. See the others above who read the book and agreed with the reviewer. Even then, it wouldn't be libel, and you'd have a very hard time making it out to be illegal under the law because interpretation of art is protected.

It sounds like the review WAS accurate, though. The job of a review isn't to provide authors with job security, it's to write reviews. Good, bad, indifferent. If someone has an experience they believe is worth saying "I would never use this service/read this author/whatever again," then it's up to the service provider…

Having an opinion about a work of art, however unflattering, is neither illegal nor is it libel. Libel would have been had the reviewer said the author herself was a rapist. But if Hale wants to sue, I 110% support her in that - I'd looooove to see her go before a judge again and try to justify her actions.

She wrote a negative review about a book that sounds, honestly, like it sucks. How is that trying to "make someone's life miserable"? Someone not liking your output isn't abuse, and if you can't make a living in a business because people don't like what you create, losing your livelihood isn't victimhood, it's an…

So basically, "Blogger uses nomme de plume, author loses her shit and stalks her."

I believe it doesn't, you believe it does. Rather than create laws based on one opinion or the either, we're given the freedom to live in accordance to our *own* opinions and stay the hell out of each others' business.

Nope.