I don't go looking at Amazon reader reviews anymore, I swear I don't. Not even the ones for my more recent stuff, let alone the old books. But somebody asked me if the old books were on Kindle yet, and since I thought I had recently signed a contract to make them available as e-books, I went to Amazon to see if it had happened yet. It apparently hasn't, but lo, my searching eye happened upon this quote from a random Lost Souls review:
There are no characters that you love. I mean who? Steve and Ghost? Maybe you'll connect with those two beer drinking bisexual homophobes, if you like eighties grunge lit.
I don't think I could get upset about this even if I still had a deep emotional investment in my work, because it simply does not compute. I present it for your amusement. All I can say is, no matter what book you write, somebody out there (often multiple somebodies) will read a totally different one.
... Bisexual homophobes, though? Eighties grunge lit? Really? I didn't write that book, did I?
Published on October 17, 2010 17:04