RinkWorks: Stupid Emails: Xanth

4. Xanth

To:  "Samuel Stoddard" <sam@rinkworks.com>
Subject:  Re: Book A Minute-Xanth
Date:  Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:35:44 -0400

> > You *******s!!!! Either Criticize your own work and leave others alone
> > for everyone else to enjoy or **** off and don't have an opinion at all.
>
> (1) It says on our web page plain as day that we actually *respect* and *like*
> the works we condense on our page, as if that wasn't obvious *without* saying
> so explicitly; (2) we *did* "criticize" our own work -- we've both written
> novels, and we've both given them the ultra-condensation treatment the same
> as we did for everyone else (on the SF/F page); (3) if you get that upset
> over something you read on a web page, my sympathies for what must be a
> relentlessly frustrated life.

just shut up and leave me alone. Make the part that says you like the work
visible. I looked at the before you flame us part and didn't see that. I
noticed it was a humour site but you should only make jokes about your own
work. Besides you little theory does not work  for all Xanth novels. Get
fully into the material rather than judging based fully on one dose. Oh.
everyone's life is frustrating I just handle the things that I am capable
of.

I left unsaid, of course, that the Xanth series is one of the targets of Book-A-Minute that we actually DON'T respect and like.