9/1/2023 0 Comments Simon rich kathleen hale![]() The YA and book blogging world were disgusted at this flagrant romanticizing of a criminal act. The response to the piece was divided into two clear camps. It’s too long to screenshot all of it, but here are some highlights of the article where she READILY ADMITS to stalking /9FQAehmcav- Samantha Randolph January 3, 2019 Stalking was simply the cute framing for the age-old tale of evil reviewers. One of our own, someone who had done nothing wrong, had been stalked by an author, who then turned the story into a quirky essay that once again positioned critics as spiteful shrews. I also knew Blythe and her disappearance from the community left many of us shaken. ![]() I, like many YA bloggers, had also negatively reviewed Hale’s book. The ‘revelation’ of the piece was that the reviewer, known as Blythe Harris, did not live under the name she used on Goodreads. It was entitled, ‘“Am I being catfished?”’ An author confronts her number one online critic.’ The piece was strange to say the least, but it waded into truly terrifying territory when Hale admitted to stalking a critic from Goodreads who gave her book a bad review. In October 2014, the author Kathleen Hale, who had written a YA novel called No One Else Can Have You, published that same year, wrote a piece for the Guardian. I spent a lot of time on Goodreads, where I cultivated a large circle of fellow YA loving friends who prized the community as much as the literature they discussed. Back in the good old days before I was a professional writer, I was a book blogger who focused heavily on young adult fiction. ![]()
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