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A Goodreads user asked this question about No One Else Can Have You (No One Else Can Have You, #1):
To all here who are "outraged" by Hale's behavior - go write a f*ing book for the next 3 years of your life. Then come read your reviews. Note: I am NOT a novelist. But I am a writer, and part of the job is to explore the dark sh*t that everyone else glosses over. It literally is the job. Whether you like what she did or not, she's hit on something human, and all the debate just demonstrates the validity of her piece.
Deborah Markus "all the debate just demonstrates the validity of her piece."

Tl,dr: No, it doesn't.

I had a hater threaten to call the police on me for child abuse, in…more"all the debate just demonstrates the validity of her piece."

Tl,dr: No, it doesn't.

I had a hater threaten to call the police on me for child abuse, in response to a piece I wrote that went viral. You didn't see me blur any ethical lines in my response to him:

http://readheadwriter.wordpress.com/2...

Want to hear some of the nasty things I've been called by other haters? Or maybe you'd like to see how many rejections I got before I landed my lovely agent, and what kind of things those rejections said?

Oh, that's right. I don't talk about those publicly, because that would be puerile and totally unprofessional. I gripe about them privately. It's called being a writer.

I'm surprised you haven't figured that part of the job out yet.(less)
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