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Jen…….there’s an author I won’t read for the very same reason. I also write blogs and don’t post them. I try realy hard to think about everything I post but sometimes I can’t help myself.

Jake, we have a lot of fun here, thanks for noticing! I know that meeting you will be one of the highlights of conference.

Candince, I bet you are tired of gossip by the end of the day! I’ve been friends with my hair dresser for nearly two decades, and it’s just amazing what people tell her. She never repeats it, I just happen to be sitting nearby so I hear it all. On another subject, I’m soooo guilty of not updating my personal blog. I have to be more consistant.

Edie, I know exactly what you mean about friends seeing themselves in our words even when we didn’t mean it that way. Like you, I value my friends more than making a point in a blog!

I’ve rewritten a few of my blogs. Not that I named names, but I’ve mentioned writing that I didn’t care for and thought a friend might see herself in it–even if that wasn’t my intention. Making a point in a blog isn’t worth hurting a friend’s feelings.

So far I haven’t stumbled upon any blog of an author that offends me. More often than not, I find blogs that aren’t regularly updated, and that bothers me more than any entry’s offense. I mean, it’s a free country, people can say what they want. And if I don’t like it? Then I’ll just not read the blog. No need for a bruhaha.

And as far as flame wars? Well, I have a rather ostrich-like approach — I avoid them, sticking my head fully in the sand, because frankly, I got better things to worry about than “who-said-what-to-who” stuff.

I’m a hairdresser by trade, and I get an unbelieveable amount of gossip every day at work. By the time I get home, the last thing I want to do is read more. So I read my favorite blogs, post occasionally, and then not worry. If someone posts something I don’t like, I don’t write a scathing retort — what’s the point? They won’t agree with my POV, so why waste my breath? I got other stuff to do.

So I guess I would say I don’t know too much — simply by choice.

Personally, Jen is one of the nicest, kindest authors I’ve ever met. She sets a good example for me. We began corresponding back when I was just the “POD poster child,” basically self published and she was already published with Kensington, and she never once treated me as though I was any different.

Her example and encouragement is one that kept me going through more than a few dark moments.

Natalie, I know some of the hate mail you’ve had to deal with and you always do it with grace and class.

Jake, you’re so right about Natalie!