I was just at Tod Goldberg's blog and saw that Dean Koontz managed to offend a good number of people at a luncheon for the Men of Mystery over the weekend.
I then had to go and read Lee Goldberg's blog because he received a phone call from Koontz telling him how very unhappy he was about Lee's thoughts on his speech.
The problem is, if intelligent people can sit in a room and get even a notion that what you are saying *could* be racial prejudice then you have said something you shouldn't have. I have not seen a response from Koontz but, there was a suggestion that he was trying to be funny. Let's hope that he will realize that he can't do funny and change his speaking engagements to something more along the lines of writing.
As a side note: I have not read either of the Goldberg's books but I do enjoy going to their blogs every once in a while. Tod's blog is less formal and words like fucktard are used in copious amounts. Just my kind of person. He has a relaxed style that makes his reader (of his blog) very comfortable. Lee's blog however, is very intimidating but can also be informative about the writing process.
Anyways, it was a bit of a relief to see that other genres have some of the same problems as those of romance community. RWA Rita Awards anyone?
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