raincitygirl

Good grief about that ludicrous "obituary". Personally, I think using someone else's memorial to promote one's own book threatens to turn "deeply tacky" into high art, and that anyone who thinks Jane Austen was "preoccupied by romantic love" has clearly got a lot less perceptiveness than WH Auden, who wrote

"You could not shock her more than she shocks me;
Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass.
It makes me most uncomfortable to see
An English spinster of the middle-class
Describe the amorous effects of ‘brass’,
Reveal so frankly and with such sobriety
The economic basis of society…”

And, if you want to see a really dodgy development of the Readercon saga, see the "you'll never work in this town again, missy, if you make waves" threats that Veronica Shanoes alludes to here (people bob up in comments to say that actually, no, despite the claims made by cogitationitis the "black-balling" discussions are about black-balling harassers not harassees and no-one thinks for a minute that any woman reporting sexual harassment should ever suffer personal or professional harm as a result, what a bizarre idea, perish the thort, what amazing imaginations you little ladeez have to be sure. I remain unconvinced, and will be until Rene Walling comes off the staff list for Worldcon 2013)