Ashley Ream
Dispatches from the City of Angels

I'm a writer and humorist living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my novel LOSING CLEMENTINE out March 6 from William Morrow. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
Previous Entry :: Next Entry

Read/Post Comments (3)
Share on Facebook


Like me!


Follow me!



Favorite Quotes:
"Taint what a horse looks like, it’s what a horse be." - A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett

"Trying to take it easy after you've finished a manuscript is like trying to take it easy when you have a grease fire on a kitchen stove." - Jan Burke

"Put on your big girl panties, and deal with it." - Mom

"How you do anything is how you do everything."


Want E-Mail Updates?
Click here, type your e-mail address into the first field (for public entries) and receive an e-mail note each time a new blog post goes up. Absolutely, positively no spam. Promise.



Shocked and horrified...

Today's blog was going to be a funny story about my husband discovering his hair is going gray. I was mentally writing it right up until the moment I checked my e-mail. That's when things didn't seem quite so funny anymore.

My friend Sue Ann Jaffarian writes the Odelia Grey mystery series about a plus-size paralegal. "A heroine for the bulk of us!" as Sue Ann likes to say. It's a character that, in a short time, has been embraced by readers of all shapes, as evidenced by the great write-up in the N.Y. Times and her recent T.V. deal. Sue Ann also has a blog that is almost as much fun as she is. That's the thing about Sue Ann. Everybody who knows her, loves her. You meet her and have this overwhelming urge to hug her and tell her all your problems, which is why this is just so particularly awful.

Sue Ann wrote a blog post about a contest being held to find the heaviest woman and get her to put on a pig mask for money. It's a horrible thing, and Sue Ann said so. Then the comments started rolling in. The replies are some of the most vile things I've ever seen and that includes the bathroom stall graffiti in any number of junior high schools.

Because Sue Ann is who she is, she's left the replies there, only now restricting the worst of the language and only because some of it was beginning to be directed at other posters and not just herself. Sue Ann is taking it in stride. I am not. She is my friend. She is a good person and a great writer. She deserves respect.

I realize that those who say such things are only really shedding bad light on themselves. But I can't believe that this hasn't on some level been hurtful to her. And that hurts me.

To Sue Ann, we love you, and I'm so sorry. To my blog readers, you've always said only the kindest things. I appreciate that so much more now.

And now, you'll have to excuse me. I'm going to go buy every mystery lover on my Christmas list a copy of Sue Ann's latest book, "Too Big to Miss." They're going to love it.

To check out Sue Ann's blog: http://sueannjaffarian.blogspot.com/

To check out her latest book:
http://www.amazon.com/
Too-Big-Miss-Odelia-Mystery/dp/0738708631/sr=8-7/
qid=1162242050/ref=sr_1_7/002-4655343-2159203?ie=
UTF8&s=books



Read/Post Comments (3)

Previous Entry :: Next Entry

Back to Top

Powered by JournalScape © 2001-2010 JournalScape.com. All rights reserved.
All content rights reserved by the author.
custsupport@journalscape.com