Hi ho, MMMlogerinos!

Ladies Keep Quiet
That's what many grandmothers and mothers used to teach their daughers. There's a place and a time to disagree, to air grievances, but mostly ladies should keep quiet about their problems to anyone else but family. And it was just wise to keep quiet there, too. I'd so hoped that day was done.

The recent yeeeehaaaa within Romance Writers of America is producing some interesting blogs and list sermonettes. Most are very vocal against the awards ceremony hijacking and one or two others regret the organization's difficulties hadn't been aired in public, especially not in Publishers Weekly. Oh. My. Whatever will the neighbors think? The industry won't respect us in the morning if we let them know we have problems. They won't take us seriously. They'll call us a bunch of women! And not in a good way, either. Yada yada yada. So what?

As Gilda Radner said, "It's always something." As so this is. And it too shall pass or morph into something else that becomes an outlet for the excess energy created when competitive creatives vie against each other for attention, aka publicity, and power or whatever.

Go ahead, put your hands over your ears and repeat after me, "Lalalalalalalalala."

See, much better now.

Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMMMelinda