quick curious q

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Pro authors are all over LJ, often in very participatory fashion. Does this effect how or to what degree you critique their books?

I'm being relentless on the subject of Melusine and was just sort of taken up short by "Monette is on my friends list" in another comment on it. Of course, it doesn't really change my tonal quality, which is what it is, but it interested me.

Conversely, for those of you published or working on publishing, how do you want that sort of thing handled and how do you intend to handle it on your end.

Personally, I think I'd have to do a lot of constant reminding my myself not to engage, because I can explain my work all day long, but ultimately a book must speak for itself, no matter how engaging I seem to think I am on the subject.

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Monette is on my friends list and I've been interested to read your take on it as I've yet to read the book myself. I don't think I'd be careful about what I said necessarily, Tanya Huff is andpuff and it won't stop me from saying that I still find her Keeper stories a bit tedious at times; thus far I've not found too much at fault enough to be scathing for most authors.