Hatches I went into Amazon.com too, to try to read that stuff and couldn't locate it. Can you tell me where to go, hons?
Love your comments... Anne's "Dickensian" principles in truth put her on the side of the bad guys in those novels - the rich folk, who run industries that trample the little guys!
Lexx your edit works 'cause you made it all one sentence; concision is her #1 problem. Putting 'slander' at the end of the sentence is better too, as I agree her use of "urinal" is a dangling metaphor she doesn't work well enough. She ought to have yellowed up her vitriol with 'spew' 'rank' 'gush' or 'stinking' etc. to bring it all up to a grand smelly displeasure.
Calling even a few of her fans "stupid" because they dare to criticise her is another aspect of a mentality that's suspect. She reminds me of these wannabee Dominatrices on Max Fisch who announce they are 'the greatest' and the 'most beautiful.' Just because you say it's so doesn't make it so. Giant paychecks notwithstanding!
Her saying she has 'achieved the status' of NOT being edited shows she's deep in the adolescent fantasy that she is some kind of 'perfect' artist. I feel being an author, even a great one, isn't something you 'achieve' and then that's that. Like being an athlete, dancer, or musician, it's a craft with a phalanx of muscles. We do sadly deteriorate with age and disuse and have to work hard to keep it all humming.
If even one of your lowly fans dares to make a suggestion, you should at least pretend to give them a hearing. I believe that is only gracious. Hundreds of folk on a website all saying the same thing ought to make some dent in her armour. I do not admire her raving nastiness.
Concerning editors however, I think one of the worst problems in this day and age is not so much that big ol' hogs like King and Beans n'Rice aren't edited... but NOBODY much is being edited. I've asked whenever I have the opportunity if someone knows of a nice, decent hard-ass editor at some publishing house who would like to read something pretty good, and work with me on it! To the end of being published. But such a thing as an in-house workng editor just doesn't seem to exist anymore. Even the small press who most recently published me told me "We never edit anyone." I think that blows.
Not editing the big ol' whales is doing their posterity a disservice. These gross things won't be republished 100 years from now, or, sorry to say Beanie, you'll be edited down for anthologies, to pleasure the even shorter attention spans of the mutant readers of the 2100s.