via ladytabitha — from either anne rice or someone claiming to be her in an amazon review of Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles), entitled “From the Author to the Some of the Negative Voices Here, September 6, 2004″:

I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself.

…

[Three particular passages from the book] can be read aloud without a single hitch. Every word is in perfect place.

well, isn’t that special. if you really posted that, anne, sweetie, this is your hint that it’s time to retire. y’all ain’t all that special, and sometimes your prose does stink.

this post also states my opinions for me in a far funnier way, drawing the allusions to bad fanfic writers: “Lurkers Support Me In EMAIL!”

and here’s a strikingly similar post on anne’s official web site that seems to support the idea that she really is, in fact, that big of a clueless wonder.

oh, brother.

(ObDisclaimer: i haven’t read any Anne Rice in ages. i was never a really big fan, and the stuff that i did like was not so much the Vampire Chronicles stuff — Belinda, Cry to Heaven, The Witching Hour. i didn’t have anything against the vampire books, i kinda liked RockStar!Lestat in whichever book that was, but i just never really got into it the way some people did.)