'Tis the season for "Authors Behaving Badly"

I keep hearing these stories, and the more I hear them, the more I hate them. They go something like this.   "I was so excited to meet Author X but when I got there, he didn't show up."   "I stood in line to meet Author X, but she just brushed me off."   "I've read every one of her books, but when I finally got to meet Author X, she was so unbearably rude to me that I'll never read another one of her books. Ever."   "Author X seems like a nice person, but she has her favorites, and that doesn't