Sounds fair to me. I look forward to your next wave of excellent work ;-)

See I think he is wrong. Yes your writing is convoluted at times, but that is because my brain is too stupid or lazy to figure it out, and it all makes clear on a second re-read. Also your characters are real people,a nd I would have loved to meet them for real. Real life has gotten in the way of leaving a more substantial review for DV, but it will happen (adds it to the giant working list for vacation). Hang in there, we love your writing, and there will be detractors everywhere

Well. Too much to comprehensively argue against since I have to do my homework, but I'd like to point out that I actually *preferred* the later stories, especially SD, because they were more convoluted...more opportunities for trying to figure things out! And I liked how you always (or almost always) had hints beforehand, even if they weren't obvious. Well, I also loved LwD, because little kids are cute, but that's beside the point.

Convoluted? Ha. More like complex and interesting. Characters with layers and flaws. Foreshadowing that isn't immediately obvious and cultural references that make me laugh out loud. If you want a straightforward hero's quest go to one of the other million fanfics. The DV is not perfect, but is one of the most entertaining and well-written fictions (including those published) I have read for a while. I sincerely hope it gets published in a way which nets you money because it (and you) deserve it.

Any time we act in public, we expose ourselves to public censure and criticism, often anonymously given. But I think you take it too personally, too much as an attack, don’t you? I’ve said it before, and it bears repeating: your fans want to communicate with you, they just don’t know how to say what they mean, and they end up saying the completely wrong things. I know I’ve done it from time to time. Obviously your overanalyzing fan liked your story, but misunderstood how to express that, misunderstood the purpose of the review, and fell into cliched norms that were completely inappropriate for the situation. Maybe OF felt he (she?) was being clever or thought he knew more than you, or understood story structure and character construction better.

But you already knew that such “reviewers” are saying more about themselves (at least at that moment) than about you. You just needed to rant, didn’t you? Feeling better?

Oh, and as long as I have your ear, it’s probably worth noting that you no longer own the Dangerverse. In the sense that it belongs now to your fans to make of it what they will, to interpret it how they choose, to mock it, distort it, or applaud it. As the writer, you no longer get a say in how we interpret it. You don’t get to say “No, this part here really means this.” So when OF criticizes your work, they’re ripping away something from the rest of us, something we value, and which we (in a sense) own. You’ve just got caught in the crossfire, and I’m really sorry about that.

Yes. Yes, you are. So there, my latin lessons forced me to write this since it was there I learned all about the art of rhetoric means I ever wanted to learn and more.... About convoluted writing: Yes. Yes, you are writing in slings instead of sentences sometimes, but I prefer that over boring straight line stuff I figured out after 10 minutes. Convoluted means "Too weird to grab it at once", yes. But it also means "Fun to read a quadruple times because there's always something to figure out still". So, it probably depends on personal taste which one you prefer, so I agree, for OF they are right. Which is ok as long as they don't get all high-handed and ignore personal feelings'n'stuff. I am pretty sure there is no author in this world who's style is loved by all of mankind, but that's nothing I can present valid data (Recension on Amazon? There's always someone giving one star, simply saying "I don't link it, don't buy it!"). What I want to say is: OF is right in their own way, but that doesn't mean they can't have bad manners. And certainly I have to reject the thought fiercely that they are speaking for a large number of your readers, because honestly, the people who don't like the convoluted style simply won't stick with your stories long enough to give this detailed review. Maybe OF was just frustrated because they couldn't bring themselves to stop reading. Happens to everybody, to take it out on a personal level is bad manners (see above). I love your writing style and I call it multi-layered :] What's not to love there? Cuddles! Haminac

To be honest, I don't really remember how much your style of writing has changed over the course of the Dangerverse. I've been reading along for quite a while so I've never read early and later chapters side by side. Thinking about it, they did get more complicated with more subplots, because the Pack stopped acting as one unit and the Pride started doing their own thing. Obviously a family with small kids is mostly going to stick together and when the kids get older, they start having their own lives and making decisions. But I certainly never thought that your writing was getting worse and I continued to wait anxiously to read more and not just because I needed to find out how it ended, but because I continued to enjoy reading. And I loved that Harry was not the only focus and that other characters were completely developed and not just in their relationships with Harry.