Authors Behaving Badly

Through Bookshelves of Doom I discovered this blog post.

In summary, the blogger's twelve year old daughter wrote a review of The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein. She thought the book was "a bit confusing and too slow." Mr Grabenstein left a lengthy comment on the blog talking about how much everyone else loves his book. Mother and daughter were turned off by his attitude.

I have not read The Crossroads and am not familiar with the author, so I can't weigh in on the book discussion. However, I greatly appreciate the fact that there are kids reviewing juvenile books because I sometimes wonder if us adults always have children in mind when we review them.

This post also made me feel that much more love toward Mark Jeffrey, author of The Pocket and the Pendant. He is the only author I know of who has found my book review blog. He left a comment on my review of his book and was incredibly gracious. Now I see how easily it could have gone a different way. Mr. Jeffrey not only writes good books, but also takes criticism well. That makes you a great author in my book!