From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 11:22:25 PM UTC-4, David Friedman wrote:   
   > On 6/10/14, 3:07 AM, mumble wrote:   
   > > So-called "writers" like yourself William Vetter and your "colleague"   
   > > Julie Pascal (intern/wannabe-"professional writer") are unable to let go   
   > > of your egoic need to be recognized as The Next Great Writing Genius for   
   > > long enough to absorb that which might actually help you arrive there.   
   >   
   > For what it's worth, I'm a moderately successful published writer   
   > (nonfiction--my fiction hasn't done so well),   
      
   Your fiction has done its job, which is to entertain me. I guess it is only   
   fair to add that one of my favorite writers, Paul E Zimmer, is out of print   
   and he wrote in the late Twentieth Century, so I am no judge of commercial   
   appeal.   
      
   and your comments did not   
   > strike me as providing useful criticism.   
      
      
   >   
   > More as an attempt to stroke your own ego.   
      
   That's what it looked like to me also.   
      
   --   
   Will in New Haven   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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