Tag: Authors Behaving Badly

#BloggerBlackout: On Entitlement #HaleNo

#BloggerBlackout: On Entitlement #HaleNo

Things have been pretty intense in the blogosphere as of late. A publisher is suing a blogger; An author stalked a reviewer, going so far as to visit her home; An author complained that Amazon’s Vine program tanked her book; An author actually assaulted a reviewer. The explosion of the interwebs since Hale’s article has […]

“Catfish”, “Doxx”, and “Stalk” – What You Need To Know About Kathleen Hale #HaleNo

Last week, The Guardian posted an op-ed piece from YA author Kathleen Hale titled, ‘Am I Being Catfished’? An author confronts her number one online critic (I’m using a Do Not Link filter so the site doesn’t get a hit from your click). Let me break down the article for you. In response to a query […]

Edited: Readers Beware of Unprofessional Authors

Edited: Readers Beware of Unprofessional Authors

Holly: Today a little birdie sent us a link to this post, Authors Beware of Unprofessional Reviewers (see the title of my post? Clever, right?), in which Sylvia Massara whines about the bad review she received here on our site. I find this extremely amusing because 1) the author already threw a giant hissy fit […]

How long is too long?

How long is too long?

Lisa Valdez’s long awaited Patience is being released on April 6th, almost five years after the release of Passion. Karen Robards’ third book the Banning Sisters Trilogy, Shameless, is being released eight years after the release of Irresistible. When you think about the staggering amount of time between releases, it could make you wonder. Why […]

To Review Or Not Review…

Posted June 7, 2007 by Rowena in Discussions | Tagged: , | 31 Comments
To Review Or Not Review…

…that is the question. Book Binge is a blog dedicated to the books that me and my blogging buddies love and read. Sometimes we read books that we absolutely love and you’ll find all sorts of fangirl behavior in the reviews we post, and sometimes we can’t stand a book and you’ll get a passionate […]