Not everything is about you, Mulder
August 3, 2008
Mulder: "All this because I... because I didn't get you a desk?"
Scully: "Not everything is about you, Mulder. This is my life."
Mulder: "Yes, but it's m..."
Tags: Romanceland, X-FilesForever Karen Forever…
June 29, 2008
For When You Care Enough to Only Obsess Over The Best...
Tags: drama, Karen Scott, RomancelandNew Game: stupid or clueless
May 26, 2008
TGTBTU is a reader blog. We are for readers by readers and everything I do - event, news or feature wise - is for readers just like us.
TGTBTU is very author friendly or at least I think we are. If you are an author that doesn't like to see honest opinions, thinks there should be no such thing as bad reviews, think Average (a.k.a. a "C" grade) is a bad thing or only want sunshine blown up your arse, then this isn't a good blog for you to hang at.
So I can't decide:
Tags: Debra Macgillivray, drama, reviews on reviews, Romanceland, Stupid Author TricksRT 2008: Romantic Times Day Two
April 17, 2008
by Lynne Connolly, TGTBTU's Author on the Spot at RT
Wednesday. The day started with bag stuffing. Lots of laughter as we got the Ellora's Cave bags ready for tonight. Christine McKay, who did a lot of Not Sock Puppets (hint – it doesn't go on your feet, but it rhymes) kindly did us some duckie puppets – I'll try to take a photo once I can get my camera to work. Just for us ducks!
Tags: 2008, April 2008, Author on the Scene, Lynne Connolly, Romanceland, RT 2008RT 2008: First Impressions
April 17, 2008
Lynne Connolly, paranormal and historical romance author, is our author on the scene at the famous and infamous RT Booklover's covention. Beefcake, Costume Balls, Authors and hundreds of rabid romance fans. Here's a little article. Read on for Lynne's first report..
Lisa Valdez Doesn’t Speak, Take III? IV? and Karen Scott On the Move, Take V, or is it VI?
March 19, 2008
Does being gone count as an update?
Doesn't really mean much since Karen Scott's blog is down (again) too and she isn't going anywhere. No really, sorry NCP no breaking out into song yet. Damn woman I can't keep up, or is it Torquere wanting to drink on your cold, dead blog?
Whatevs.. No worries though until her site is back up you can find her here.
Tags: 2008, Karen Scott, Lisa Valdez, Romanceland, Sybilhitler is so 1980
December 11, 2006
It was only a matter of time before Godwin's Law was updated. For those of you not use to flame wars and/or internet stupidity, Godwin's Law:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
god this brings a tear to my eye... oh yes it is a single tear...
If you are not playing the home game. Holly Lisle said something stupid, jane dared to blog her opinion about it, linking to Holly's own post, holly had kittens, jane posted regarding a demand for sorry's, hugs and air kisses, which ended with holly doing one of the worst things in online netiquette.
The comments on holly's post are golden and filled with wisdom. My personal fave being from pugh7755, who seems to really love bloggers which is shown in his comment
...The more comments they receive the happier they are. A sad excuse for a life really. They are the Al Qaeda of the blog world.
Although Diana Peterfreund's comment does run a very close second. I guess she wouldn't blink an eye if someone fell on her land and said something like... 'wow - you have a dangerous situation here and I was hurt by it. I wonder what a lawyer would say.'
Hmmm well I guess Holly beats pugh because she links to herself, her own words and thoughts and then has no issue with blaming jane for how bookstores (not sellers because she never ever addressed people just the 'stores', we won't even get into how she thinks bricks sell books) misunderstood her post. She says in her comments
These two somehow managed to, and have managed to piss off a number of other booksellers and a whole bunch of potential readers toward me for no reason at all.
So I guess that means not only does holly hate chain bookstores, she thinks booksellers are too stupid to read and form an opinion but can only be spoon fed info from jane.
Oh who knows which is the best comment... they are all comic gold. No worries you can make up your own mind. Really! I do wonder though, when the fuck did jane get all powerful and why the fuck didn't anyone tell me? I feel so out of the loop. I wonder if this has shown up on fandom wank yet.
Tags: Diana Peterfreund, drama, Godwin's law aka snaky's law, Holly Lisle, RomancelandAnd they call us mean girls….
October 3, 2006
<--- well not me *g*
8. The editors find out what is said about them on the loops and they track it down. Brenda Chin said directly to the whole room - if you are an idiot on the loops or are difficult to work with and she knows about it - she won't buy your book.
I assume number eight is talking about the witch hunt from a while back... I still think it is stupid to 'bash' your publisher and such. It would be like me coming here and saying COMPANY X I work for blah blah blah. Then going huh, what? when I get fired.
And of course this is just a blogger saying what Brenda Chin said and not quoting (I think) but 'an idiot on the loops' is a touch subjective isn't it? It reads like you better not be saying anything fucking bad about me or I will get you my pretty and your lil dog too!
Tags: drama, mean grrls, RomancelandStop Smoking Crack the final frontier
July 21, 2006
If you haven't read the review, how fucking big is your rock? I would STILL love to hear how that is a bash of the author, editor or publisher but since it isn't I don't see that happening any time soon. That is NOT a personal attack on the author. If anything it is a complement that she was able to get a publisher to publish what the reader found to be a shitty book.
Since I don't believe in being coy unless a man and sex are involved I will spell out what I found.
review for Finders Keepers reviewed by J. Wallace "Voracious Reader" (Tennessee)
Captain Trilby Elliot has parked her rattletrap ship on an uninhabited planet to make repairs when an enemy 'Sko ship hurtles into the forest nearby. Istead of salvaging useful parts from the crash, she salvages a Z'fharian man, Rhis Vanur, who turns out to be both very useful and very inconvenient. Rhis is useful in that he can help her repair her ship. Rhis is inconvenient in that he insists she change her schedule to return him to his squadron a.s.a.p, which Trilby is not about to do, not when she has a badly needed commission waiting for her at Port Rumor. However, there's more to Rhis than Trilby knows, and between the two of them they manage to get involved in a huge political scandal involving Trilby's sleazy former boyfriend, the 'Sko, and Rhis's secret identity. And before everything blows up in their faces, they manage to get involved with each other, which complicates matters greatly.Trilby and Rhis are well-rounded characters of the type you don't consistently encounter in futuristic romances, or any romances, for that matter. They don't fall fully into romance stereotypes, being more reminiscent of inhabitants of the novels of Anne McCaffrey or Tanya Huff.
More specifically, Trilby is tough, capable and independent and doesn't need Rhis any more than she needs another hole in her spaceship. This makes it all that much more convincing when she begins to fall in love with him, plus her character doesn't morph from Space Amazon.com to Space Bimbo once S-E-X enters the picture. Rhis isn't a foil for Trilby, as they are alike in many ways, which allows them to respect and understand one another. I have few complaints with Trilby and only a minor one with Rhis -- he's such a hard and rather cold man that I wasn't entirely convinced when he lost his head over Trilby.
The plot is pure, rollicking space opera, with suspense, computer programming, backstabbing, space battles and galaxy-wide threats galore. The secondary characters are neither too few nor too many, and the author doesn't write any of them in such a way that you can tell she intends you to be intrigued and "demand" the next book. The worldbuilding is satisfactory, if focused on spaceships and technology instead of exotic climes and sexy alien men with psychic powers, but this novel is refreshingly stand-alone. Sometimes you just want to read a good space adventure instead of get trapped in a family saga.
We don't get to know much about "the enemy," the 'Sko, but how much did you get to know the giant insects in the movie Starship Troopers? You didn't care about the bugs; you just wanted the good guys to shoot bug heads until green goo flew everywhere. Finders Keepers is that kind of good time, without the tragic loss of the most interesting female character prior to the end of the work. A recommended read.
ETA: Has been re-released from Bantam Spectra -- track it down!
review for Finders Keepers reviewed by Jody Wallace, Editor, SFROnline
"Captain Trilby Elliot has parked her rattletrap ship on an uninhabited planet to make repairs when an enemy 'Sko ship hurtles in the forest nearby. But instead of salvaging useful parts from the crash, she salvages a Z'fharian man, Rhis Vanur, who turns out to be both very useful and very inconvenient in his own special way...Trilby and Rhis are well-rounded characters of the type you don't consistently encounter in futuristic romances, or any romances, for that matter. They do not fall fully into romance stereotypes, being more reminiscent of inhabitants of the novels of, say, Anne McCaffrey or Tanya Huff. They dwell neither in angst-land nor cutesy comedy land, and for me characters I can like and understand will make or break a novel.
More specifically, Trilby is tough, capable and independent, which I just adore in a female protagonist, and doesn't need Rhis any more than she needs another hole in her spaceship. This makes it all that much more convincing when she begins to fall in love with him...
The plot is pure, rollicking space opera, with suspense, computer programming, backstabbing, space battles and galaxy-wide threats galore... I recommend Finders Keepers... take it to bed with you and stay up late flipping pages."
--Jody Wallace, Editor, SFROnline
drum roll please...
A. Jody Wallace is J Wallace
B. Someone who really hates Jody Wallace is fucking with her.
C. Someone ripped a review off from a site thinking no one would ever know
It wouldn't be the first time a review got posted at amazon by someone who didn't first write the review.
The lesson to be learned here? If you are going to post on the internet make sure your ducks are in a row. Cuz this isn't vegas and nothing stays secret for long. If you have something to lose, watch your back or stay off the net.
The review didn't BASH the author as a person. I have no idea where Jody's Wallace's name first came from. The fact that she doesn't list herself as an author or her website at amazon or her reviews on her website means that to me she wasn't shouting out they were one and the same. And the fact that people kept repeating it WITHOUT facts to back it up or the desire to care if they were even right is a scary fucking thing.
I have nothing to hide. I have never in my 13 years on the internet posted under a sock or as anything other than redwyne/sybil. So I am not scared of being outed myself, I forget who came to the wonderful conclusion on Alison's blog. If I want to say a book/author/reader/person sucks I will do it as me or I won't do it.
This shit happened in philedom... over fucking fanfic. One author pissed in someone's cheerios and they in turn ended up speaking to their boss. I remember wondering how anyone could be so fucking insane and petty.
This is a review. THEY ARE WORDS. Sticks and stones lovey. Even if that review called an author a stupid cunt that would be no reason to hunt someone down, out an alias or screw with someone way of life. Being called names is something you should get the fuck over in grade school. Two wrongs do not make a right and don't bother with the crap that you were just trying to help a poor stupid newbie.
Call it what you want, wrap it up in shiny happy colors, but this shit stinks. If you had a hand in the witch hunt you should be fucking ashamed of yourself. And if you posted an authors name with no care to if you had your facts straight, you should remember what they say about glass houses and be more careful.
I don't want to know who deep throat was. Good god what a wonderful support group the romance writers association has to go into its convention with. You can give knives away with 'RWA 2006' on them as keepsakes.
I am gonna go finish (reading) my book... stick a fork in me I am done.
Tags: drama, Romanceland, Stop Smoking Crack IIIStop Smoking Crack Redux
July 20, 2006
In Stop Smoking Crack
anon said
No there's nothing from Wallace on the Harlequin boards. That was a different scandal. This started from her RWA "friends".A little cross referencing is a beautiful thang.
Look at the list of members here.
Then look at the names of the commenters to labreque's blog.
See a few names in common?
For extra credit go to the authors web pages & look at their photos.
I don't really know how all these tie together or why anon would tie them together unless she googled the commenter's names. And I am too lazy to read the authors sites to piece together their common org's. So just going off the links given... Read more
Tags: drama, Romanceland, Stop Smoking Crack II
