I just read Bertie Bott’s note and even though I reblogged it on my Blog page, I have to say something here also.

This is unreal people!!!

As I mentioned on my post on the Kittyinaz Reblog, and before on this site, we do not get paid for this!   Not a penny!  I give a link for Amazon, that gives me a little amount of money.  But it is something you can do to help out, while normally shopping on Amazon.  It doesn’t cost YOU a penny.  But this is not a direct result of me writing, and Bertie does not even do that.

The only thing authors would like in return for spending the hours we do on our work is a kind word, and often people don’t even do that!   I don’t know of how many times I had to teach myself to look at hits on the page, instead of reviews to really tell what fans like.  Even then, I found writing for myself the better way to go, since I am not disappointed in fan reactions.

But to have people being openly rude, well.  That is unacceptable.  Real Life is more important than posting stories that often don’t get a tenth of the reaction that we put into the stories.  I have told my ladies over and over again that RL comes first.  Our first commitment is to our real life, our families.

For instance, I have Murphy in the house right now.  He needs a lot of time and effort.  He is a sick puppy, and we rescued him from the elements, and he has soo much working against him.  So I am trying to make sure he is ok, and my stories can wait until he is better.  You guys luck out, Since it is best if I stay in one place, to get him to sleep.  But I spent over an hour this morning with him, cleaning up from him being sick.  You are trying to tell me you are more important than him?  I’m sorry in my life, he will stay here for a long time, and half the time I have no idea who you guys are!

For Bertie, she is a mom of two and has her own furry child.  You expecting her to drop her family for writing is wrong on so many ways.

Readers think they are entitled, and often we rant and rave on the more pushy ones.  But I am so ashamed that an author has come to this point of saying something because of the reactions.  If you are not careful, she may decide to quit.  Why would she or I or any author want to write with abuse being stacked on us?

So next time, READ the author note in it’s entirety before you say anything, and also think, would you say that to us if we were in front of you?  How would you like if you gave of your free time and someone harassed you for not being faster, not showing up more often and so forth.  You wouldn’t take would you?  Think on that…

This is MY thoughts on this, not Bertie’s.  So don’t go off on a tear on this, if you want to, then do it at me.  Not her.

Here is her post on it: Time Out!

Kittyinaz