I know my work certainly isn’t for everyone. ;-) Explicit sex, gay men falling in love, lots of four letter words…it’s just not for everyone, and I’m okay with that. No one writer can create books that every single reader in the world will enjoy.

Thanks again for taking the time to comment, Kathy.

As someone who loves to read and has ventured to foray into the world of book reviews, I can’t state strongly enough how detestable I find reviews that do nothing but desecrate someone’s work. I don’t care how much someone doesn’t like a book, or picture, or movie… whatever; what matters to me is the words with which the reviewer ~ and sometimes this is a word I use very, very loosely to describe such a hack ~ uses to get the point across.
Yes, we’re not all going to like the same thing ~ thank heaven for that… ’cause how boring it would be if that were so ~ but to totally denigrate the creator and those who do enjoy the entertainment is truly reprehensible. Whenever I chance upon such a vitriolic display my first thought is ‘My, how sad this person is.’ Probably not the goal that they are after.
The second impulse is to find the book or whatever and disprove everything they spewed.
I know, I’m contrary… always have been and I’m sure as heck not gonna change now!

And wow… I really got off-track! My apologies Sloan! :sigh:

Anyway, what I meant to say is that for anyone who is faced with such negativity all you have to do is look at what someone is saying. If they present their views with some integrity and reasoning then they may be words that you can use. If they are all rhetoric and unreasoning words, back away and save yourself the bother… there’s probably an underlying problem and it doesn’t matter what you say, or not, nothing is going to change their minds.

I’m now off my soapbox and I’m going to chop it into bits of kindling.