Thread by @seananmcguire

I wound up on Goodreads yesterday (I try not to go there when I can help it), and was confronted with several neutral-to-negative reviews of MIDDLEGAME, which was honestly a relief. I was getting scared. (Reviews too good, no one believes them. It's a real thing!)

(To be clear: Honest reviews are for readers, not authors. The only negative review I take any umbrage with is the one that said I clearly have no siblings, because it's factually very wrong. No one is required to like anything.)

The factual errors are part of why I avoid Goodreads, because it's never appropriate for a writer to argue with a reviewer, but I've seen people asserting, very firmly, that I am...

* a man
* an only child
* straight
* several people
* Christian

All of those things are fine things to be, but I am literally none of them. I'm a singular queer Pagan woman with seven siblings.

And it's hard for me to see someone telling active lies about me, as a person, rather than discussing the work, and not get involved.