Depressed!

It's typical! Just as I feel good about putting out my horror story 'Terror Asylum'

http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Psychiat...

I go and spot this rather horrible review on Amazon, and it makes me feel like packing up shop again. If you buy a story and don't like it - then get your refund and don't buy any more of mine. Seriously, it's really no skin of my back if you don't like my stories. I really don't like what I consider personal attacks though. I hate addressing reviews, but in this case I feel a need to. Please, if you want me to keep writing vote this down for me, comment it, report it, anything - why? I will explain point by point:-


This seems to be yet another crass attempt to make money off an otherwise under-exploited genre. In the case, castration fetishism.

*Not the first castration fetish book I wrote, so NOT an attempt to cash in on anything.

The context is certainly an excellent one for this kind of fantasy, a harem where castrated men are a normal part of everyday life. Edouard Roditi wrote an excellent story in this context, "A Meek Wolf Among the Savage Lambs". I recommend it highly. Playboy re-printed it as one of their Ribald Tales, years ago.

*Good for you, what does this actually tell us about THIS work?

This story here, "Harem Slave", is very weak. It comes across as just running through a laundry list of female domination activities. The cuckolding section is particularly laughable. The feminization aspect is silly and unaffecting, as well.

*If you say so, you seem to be alone in your opinions though! I liked the cuckold scene, I thought it was fun.

The narrative at the beginning that sets up the situation is unnecesarily long and comes across as 3rd rate best-seller prose.

*So it's a 'laundry list' I quote, but the setup is too long? Can you make your mind up please! If you're going to complain, at least complain co-herrantly.

The only hot part for castration fetishists like myself, is Henrietta's castration roughly in the middle of the story. But it's still fairly weak. And the motivation for Henrietta to beg for castration is not developed convincingly.

*This is NOT just a castration fetish story - read the label! It has castration in it, but it has other stuff too! It has lots of my guilty pleasures in it!

The author takes such great pains to convince the reader that they are female that I suspect the opposite is the case.

*What?! How ironic that I spot this only a few weeks after I uploaded a couple of pictures of me. Besides which, what has this actually got to do with the story? I suppose it is PART written by a male, I spent a lot of time bouncing ideas of BF and listening to his ideas, I even let him write little bits of some stories - but regardless of that - how is that relevant to this story?

Writing effective pornography is difficult. This author has certainly not mastered it.

*Like I said, don't like it? Get your refund, then don't buy any more of my stories. A more constructive review which I didn't read as more or less a string of personal attacks, would have been useful. Of course your so clever and perceptive. Clearly I'm actually a fifty six year old nineteen stone, balding German guy who sits there writing stories as Sabrina Jen because... Um, well erm, I'll get back to you when I can think of an actual reason someone might choose to do that.

On top of everything else, the author insults the reader by presenting almost 40% of the material as advertising for their other publications. This is the most crass and insulting thing I've ever seen. It boggles my mind.

*Don't like free samples? Lists of other stories? Don't read em'! Simplez, as the meerkat says! If you feel that strongly, don't buy any more of my stories, you are NOT welcome to read them.

I certainly won't be reading anything else by this person.

*Good, please don't. If you do offer up a verified purchase review of anything else by me, then we can all take that as an admission that you're not very intelligent.

The bottom line is, I'm not selling high art here, I never was. I'm not trying to be Steinback or McEwan, or Faulkner, I'm trying to sell ideas, ideas which set your imagination going. If you want something to put a little fizz in your brain and you don't mind it being significantly sub-pulitzer prize winning, buy away, follow my blog, get your FREE stories! If you're looking to make personal attacks on me, or expect the femdom equivalent of 'The Grapes of Wrath' then please look somewhere else - my stories are NOT for you and you are politely asked NOT to read them.

It's typical, I had all these great ideas running around in my head, just waiting to bubble out then I go and get this. If you don't want SJM stories - FINE, I won't write any more - again, as the meerkat says, 'simplez'!

Sabrina. xx.