Anne Rice amusements

Thanks to quizzicalsphinx for pointing me to this discussion on Amazon.

In particular, the bit where Anne Rice responds to critics of the newest last 'Vampire Chronicles' book. I'm going to reproduce the review here, emphasis mine, because this sort of thing needs to be preserved for posterity: [Edit: Since I originally posted this, Amazon have deleted AR's post and many of the responses from their site.]

( We don't need no steenkin' editors. Or paragraph breaks. )

Reminds me of 'The Silver Wolf', which silverblue unluckily read a while back. The cover prominently featured a glowing review by Anne Rice on the cover, but rather failed to mention that the author was AR's sister.

Edit: In fairness to AR, I'll mention this post on her website, which clarifies one point: she does use a copy editor, who checks her work for typos, grammatical errors, paragraph breaks, and some of the other sins perpetrated above. What she appears to have rejected, except as an emasculated after-the-fact cheerleader, is a substantive editor. That's the person whose job is to tell you things like "This is poorly organised, these characters need more development, and nobody wants to read fifteen pages of your hero's political philosophy."