My Blood Runs Cold: An Objective Review

You are not exactly casting yourself in the best light there. It is very easy to throw stones and call people names, I do it myself more often then I should, but you have to be careful you don't become the very thing you hate. Just saying.

Rubbish. This is no more or less a reaction to the content that Castle posted, namely his work and what came with that link. But for that post you'd not be posting in in this thread now.

I'm not calling the kettle anything. I'm pointing out that the feigned indignation from a bunch of righteous shits in the interview thread with nothing but one big hypocrisy.

You mean the guy who obtains personal information from others and then stalks you over PM with it, and thereafter is too cowardly to even discuss his own actions, that bloke and "whatever issue"?

I have not read "the pamphlet" - and it's not a fucking pamphlet, it's a short story. I read his original work. I have asked Castle if it csn be bought hard copy. He doesn answer. If it can I will buy it. I don't have an ebook reader otherwise (nor do I much care for them).

Castle didn't post this thread. WAB opened this particular door and no matter what shit you try and feed me you know full well that this is nothing more than another attempt to stoke Castle and isn't what it's dressed up to be.

See, you need to take Castle off ignore to understand why Rick said that, as it was directed at him.

I have to apologize for missing your question, Chup. It's a serialized novel. Once the last installment is released in that form, it'll be released some time thereafter in paperback.

Chup is sad that people noticed his transparent troll attempt.

FTFY.

That's not how it reads to me. To me it reads like he's indignant about being accused of a transparent troll attempt by the same people who jumped into this thread and commenced to do some transparent trolling themselves.

Can't even respond to my post can you.

Absolutely, that's exactly how it reads. But the problem for him is that he tossed out the first stone, and is therefore responsible for the avalanche that followed, which includes this thread. The difference in how people reacted has mainly to do with your meltdown, Castle. Pre-meltdown, you garnered some sympathy. Post-meltdown, not so much. Chup got his pants in a twist because he perceives favoritism toward WAB, but fails to note the changing context. I can't help him out there, but most people, likely even you, can see the difference.

By the way, some of the criticism in this thread was actually useful -- and has been used.

Hey, that's what we're here for!

Alas, poor Chup refuses to participate in helping you, because butt hurt.

Really? Who's points have you taken to heart?

Sympathy -- yuck. I'm unaccustomed to it, as a consequence of which I don't like it. Because I don't like it, I do whatever it takes to put a cold hard stop to it when I see it comin' my way. That's enough honesty, I think.

The price was, in point of fact, unjustifiably high. I set it based on the word count, not the page count -- since digital books can have different page counts depending on the dimensions of the screen they're displayed on. So that's one thing -- the price has been reduced. Some content has also been edited, and I'm not saying what. Presumably, anyone who has already purchased it will receive any future revisions automatically provided they have their Kindle device/application set to allow updates.

I'm butthurt because you can't answer a post? ok.

That you ignored it when I answered the first time does not compel me to answer it again. But go on with your story.

Allow me to weigh in here, and I'm not saying I'm the world's best editor, but I do read and write a lot.

It might interest me to use my own time to read your work and provide some constructive criticism, but you've pretty much poisoned the well. It's not even that I disagree with you on a lot of things, or that I have some personal beef with you--it's that from where I sit, the flinging starts with you. Whether it's a character or the way you treat people in real life, it turns me off.

The most I can say is that I wish you the best (because why aren't we all here, except to lift up those around us), but I don't have the time to spend reviewing your work to provide feedback as a reader. Honestly.

You may not know it, but you are one of the posters here with whom I disagree the most on some issues (not all), and at the same time one of the posters I respect the most.

Strange how that works.

You'd have to read French fluently in order to buy my published writings. I've never had anything published in English.

(And even then, you'd have to agree to keep my real name off the board. There are a number of posters here who know my real name, but I still don't want it openly used on the board.)

I thought your real name was Asyncritus?

Couple points of disagreement. First one: I'm generally patient when the flinging starts, and no, I don't agree that I'm the one who starts it. I put up with it for a while, generally speaking, but when enough is enough, I'll give whoever persists in nettling me what they want. That's generally been what it takes to back 'em off it for a while at least. Second point: this well was pretty thoroughly poisoned from the get-go.

The other thing: I appreciate your honesty here.

It's amazing how everybody was out to get Castle right from the start. That's so, I don't know, totally likely?

Amazing isn't the word I'd use for it.

Just because people are out to get you doesn't mean they're lying, especially in your case. You're an asshole of epic proportions; of course people find your failure amusing. Still, your fiction is well and truly awful and incompetent, and anyone telling you otherwise is lying to make you feel better.

You're not worth the effort that lying would take.

Ehhhhh... Yeah, it does.

Are you calling Lanz a liar?

What have you written? Fiction or non-fiction? I can read French fluently and would be interested. You can PM me if you wish. Your call.

I just bought it on Smashwords.com, which lets you download books in PDF, text, HTML, or several other formats.

OK, so I'm not sure I can review this competently, not really being a fan of the genre. Hardboiled detective stories aren't my thing, and actually, the only mystery authors I read at all are Tony Hillerman (mostly known for the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee books) and Jonathan Kellerman (mostly known for the Alex Delaware series).

The setting confuses me. The 19th-century Old West elements combined with the near-future elements are reminiscent of "Firefly," but I don't get the in-universe reason for their juxtaposition. And as a few others have said, the florid descriptive style and the dialect in the narration both seem to me to distract from the story more than they serve it. However, that could be a convention of the genre that I'm just not used to.

I do find the storyline itself to be interesting and I'd like to know where it goes next.

Without giving too many spoilers, I can tell you that the reason for the juxtaposition of near future and old west is revealed through the course of the story. When I originally came up with it, the first chapter was more or less a big expository dump that set up the setting. Some constructive criticism from a seldom-seen WFer led to that being changed. But there is at least one standout hint as to what happened in Chapter 1.

Appreciate that.