when authors attack

Books Here are the ingredients. Lazlo from The Dreamin's Demon blog reviews The Victoria Vanishes, a new book by Christopher Fowler. He says it's "juvenile and amateurish – more the stuff of a cheap late night thriller than bona-fide mystery novel. I recommend it as a time waster to be turned to only in the absence of more worthwhile activities, like doing dishes or washing socks."

Then, in the comments section of the post, the author, offers some feed back to the blogger, essentially saying that Lazlo has missed the point, which is that it was supposed to be a pastiche, and lists all the people who've liked the book including Harlan Ellison, and essentially becomes a bit unstuck.

I'll let you enjoy the resulting fu-yung. It isn't pretty and neither party comes out of it that well. [via, via]