I'm perfectly capable of speaking for myself.

Kate Elliott on authorial intent.

Word.

I'm smart enough not to respond publicly to reviews, of course; that pretty much never ends well. But if you want to know which ones get up my nose the worst, it's the ones that make unfounded declarations about what was in my head while writing. If you read a particular thing out of the story, fine -- far be it from me to say ur doin it wrong. But please don't claim you know why I did things that way.

Mind you, the line between the two isn't entirely c...