Quote of the day
May 3rd, 2007 by Lynne
I’m not going to comment on the bizarre letter posted to Karen Scott’s blog by Kathryn Falk, the CEO of Romantic Times. Words fail me. But I laughed my head off at this comment I just read on another blog:
Every time I see someone using ‘enlightenment’, ‘peace and bliss’ and ‘compassion’ to justify their colossal ego and the fuzzy pink fog surrounding it, I gain a little more respect for the mystical Zen practice of having all your novices shut the fuck up for days on end, while occasionally hitting them with a stick.
Brilliant!
LOL!! I’ve been reading along with all the kerfuffling like a bystander watching a train wreck, but this is the ultimate response to it all.
Hi, John! Hi, Chris! I wish I’d come up with those words, myself. ;-)
I’d heard about the KF thing, so thanks for the link, but if you read through the comments, someone owns up somewhere near the end to having impersonated KF. She didn’t in fact write the letter. Or so it seems :) .
Love the quote.
Oh, I love that quote! I’m going to have to pass it on. :)
Hi, Kate! Yeah, it still makes me giggle, several days later. :-)
Hiya, Michelle! I saw that one post, but then I’ve read on other blogs — DearAuthor, SmartBitches, and GalleyCat, to name a few — that it actually WAS her.
Stranger and stranger, I tell ya. :-)
Her non-denial denial indicates that she meant it, even if she didn’t actually post it, and “someone hacked me” is today’s version of the hard drive crash. It’s a dog-ate-my-homework excuse, or smells like one, and coincidentally reads just like the original post in question.
I hadn’t been following the blogs. . .but I will now! It’ll be interesting to see the outcome of it all once the dust settles~
This is the first I’ve heard of it. I’m so out of the gossip path. I just read the long letter. Very weird. For someone who tells another to not take anything personally, she sure the hell did.
Hi, Ericka! Things seemed to have calmed down somewhat, but I suspect this was just the first of the usual summer flame wars in Romancelandia. It seems like screwy stuff happens every year!
You are so right, Edie. That was one weird letter, wasn’t it? I couldn’t think of anything coherent to say. The most I got out was, “Whuhh?”
Summer flame wars in Romancelandia? Screwy stuff?
Surely, there’s a romance novel in there somewhere. “His flames kept her warm at night…”
I think it has less to do with the flames of passion than it does with conference season coming up and people being freaked the hell out over it. :-)