Re: What Happened to the Authors?

If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another
five minutes, "Janet Puistonen" <boxhill@xxxxxxxxxxx>!

OrangeDood wrote:
If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another
five minutes, "Janet Puistonen" <boxhill@xxxxxxxxxxx>!

I'll be brutally frank. I think that some--and please note, I
am saying SOME--of them are afraid to post in an open forum
because they are afraid that if they disagree with anyone
about anything it might hurt their sales. I recall one male
British writer becoming hysterical with spite when
someone--Greg, IIRC--said he wouldn't buy an author's books if
he thought it was funding political activities he abhorred.

One of the things I admire about Jane is that she says what
she thinks, and sales be damned. She is a person of honor.

I'm not sure I care for the implication that the other authors
you mentioned - some of whom are my friends - are NOT persons
of honor. I'll thank you to rephrase the above.

No, I won't.

I said that Jane is a person of honor. I didn't say anyone else
wasn't.

The implication was quite clear. You said one group of people are
"afraid" they might hurt sales. In the very next paragraph, you
say Jane is NOT afraid, and this somehow makes her a "person of
honor." Your meaning seems pretty binary to me. Not much room for
misinterpretation there. I assumed you didn't mean to sound so
shrewish, and so offered you the chance to restate yourself.
Perhaps I was wrong. Alas.

--
Cheers,
--Jeff

"My grandma always said that God made libraries
so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."
--Joan Bauer, "Rules of the Road," 1998

Websites for authors
www.cincinnatimedia.com
"Web Geeks From Way Back"
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: What Happened to the Authors?
    ... I said that Jane is a person of honor. ... The implication was quite clear. ... You said one group of people are "afraid" they might hurt sales. ...
    (rec.arts.mystery)
  • Re: What Happened to the Authors?
    ... saying SOME--of them are afraid to post in an open forum because ... thinks, and sales be damned. ... She is a person of honor. ...
    (rec.arts.mystery)
  • Re: What Happened to the Authors?
    ... "afraid" they might hurt sales. ... That you inferred something is not evidence that Janet implied it. ... Twice she has refused. ... suppose this makes her a woman of honor, ...
    (rec.arts.mystery)
  • Re: What Happened to the Authors?
    ... saying SOME--of them are afraid to post in an open forum because ... thinks, and sales be damned. ... She is a person of honor. ... I said that Jane is a person of honor. ...
    (rec.arts.mystery)
  • Re: What Happened to the Authors?
    ... "afraid" they might hurt sales. ... That you inferred something is not evidence that Janet implied it. ... Twice she has refused. ... suppose this makes her a woman of honor, ...
    (rec.arts.mystery)