How not to handle bad reviews

Writers, said the science fiction author Isaac Asimov, fall into two groups: Those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Jacqueline Howett falls into the former category. Her now-infamous online outburst against a two-star review of her self-published novel The Greek Seaman on Big Al’s Books and Pals, a website devoted to reviewing the output of the independent presses, is less bleeding visibly, more an out-and-out gorefest — via redwolf.newsvine.com