Laurell Hamilton is Spider Robinson

[dsrtao]

http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/12/dear-negative-reader.html

(gakked from Jonquil)

Synopsis: LKH has jumped the shark personally and is now one with Mercedes Lackey, Spider Robinson, and probably The Attack of the R*ck*ids guy. And she's definitely picking up audience-management advice from Anne Rice.

Comments

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was too entertaining to read.

For the record, I hated the first book in the series with such a firey passion that I haven't read another thing of hers since. It was so rife with craft errors that it left me actively angry.

Say, are their links to the other authors' meltdowns that you mention above? And dare I ask what name lurks under those asterisks?

[dsrtao]

http://rockoids.com is not a hoax, and the author is entirely serious.

Spider Robinson's disease is an inability to let anything bad happen to a character he likes, which includes bringing them back from the dead, retconning a character's entire tragic motivation, and overusing end-of-the-world scenarios stopped
at the last instant by the power of love.

Anne Rice <A href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA458094.html>melted down on Amazon in 2004</a>. Mercedes Lackey... um. A good thread starts here: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_frm/thread/c50f33b204ce6a9e/ec9c036ea894c858?tvc=1&q=1141317632.412526.118670%40j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com&hl=en#ec9c036ea894c858

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Right, I remember the Anne Rice thing. Too funny! As for the rest, I'll squirrel them away for when I need a little schadenfreude.