How to Deal with Compliments in a Dignified Fashion

If a writer you admire pays you the highest compliment you can imagine, what is one supposed to do? Vaunt like a pagan? Be humble like a Christian? Giggle like a schoolgirl at a slumber party eating an entire tub of rocky road ice cream with her giggling friends? Raise an eyebrow like Spock and display no emotion?

It matters not. I am gratified to find my opinion carries such weight among my fellow Evil Legionnaires of Evil.

Mr. Larry Correia describes on his blog his desire to retire from the Sad Puppies tempest in a thimble, but that certain evil forces dragged him back in.

Then the ELoE told me tough luck, and that if I dropped out, my fans (who make up the back bone of the growing Sad Puppies contingent) would get mad at me. Plus, John Wright said that MHN was my best book, and his vote for best book of 2014. And you really can’t argue with somebody who writes like John.

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