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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.
Gary If you replace the words "Hale's behavior" with "the content of Hale's book" then I think you make a good argument. Reviewers being outraged by conten…moreIf you replace the words "Hale's behavior" with "the content of Hale's book" then I think you make a good argument. Reviewers being outraged by content like that in Ms. Hale's book should be taken with something of a grain of salt, and may say more about the mentality of the reviewer than the artist.

However, having explored the dark shit that everyone else glosses over doesn't justify stalking behavior, and it doesn't excuse misrepresenting the objections that reviewers have made about her novel. It doesn't even work as a rationalization for the public Twitter posts and on-line articles that Ms. Hale has written--even if that writing is in her mind fanciful rather than factual. (I'm not convinced Ms. Hale actually showed up at anybody's door, for instance--I think she might have... fictionalized, shall we say, certain aspects of her account.)

Whether fictionalized or factual, however, it is fair for people to be outraged (without the quotes, thank you) at such behavior. Further, the reasonable response to such unreasonable behavior is to point out the accompanying real world violence, intimidation, bullying and sense of entitlement that such behavior (even if faked for publicity or personal fantasy wish-fulfillment) that it implies.(less)
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