Also. Authors? A surprising number of people know what IP addresses are and how to track them. Even if you think you’re tricky. If Shannon wanted to know for sure…she could find out.

Don’t be dumb, authors. Please.

Also, I like to think I’m approachable about that sort of thing anyway. I mean, there is a perfectly good contact form the author could have used instead of commenting on a four-day-old post and it wouldn’t have been so asshatted. Then again, I live on planet Earth, and Earth logic eludes some people. :
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It also never occurred to me to edit the comment itself. Must. Resist. Tempation. The edit feature should be used for good, not evil.

When I look back at Demon Angel, I do see quite a few things that I might have done differently, structure-wise, so that the plot starts earlier. (Actually, I did originally start in Part II so that the main plot started right away, then realized that all of the history between them was needed to explain how they reacted to each other — and, I thought, the romance. I waffled for a long time about how to structure it, and went for chronological just because it was the most straightforward (in a book that was already convoluted enough)). Now, I think I might have handled it a little differently, in that the story is exactly what I wanted to tell, but I might have told it in a slightly different way.

Er, not that I don’t love the book; I do. But that after putting a few more books under my belt, I can see where a few structural changes might have made a huge difference in the pacing, and the content itself not alter much.

She’s actually not the first one to do it at Literary Escapism, but she is the first author I’ve seen. I’ve had a lot of hte “play roulette or poker” sites stop by and leave comments on books with their names as links to something. I don’t like those and end up deleting them (or just deleting the promotion part). So I may just do that.

AND…I’m glad you liked the review. I kept having to rewrite it because it kept sounding like a negative review and that’s not what I wanted since that wouldn’t be correct. I feel better about it now.

On the other hand … it *is* irritating when someone uses your site to promo their work like that. Irritating and rude.

So when they show up here, a part of me wants to just delete the comments. The other part of me is quite happy to allow them to stay and make an ass of themselves.

Now the question is….do I delete it or change the name to be correct and get rid of the promo? Would it be wrong if I did that?