So, I got a really funny comment on my blog over the weekend...

[Jon Loomis]

Here it is, unedited:

Read your book Mating Season, first book I have read by you and the last, I don't think you shouldput your politics in your books by bashing Pres. Brush and his Cabinet which shows your liberal views which we can do without.

Where to begin?

[Jon Loomis]

The problem with Palin and her ilk, from a writer's point of view, is that if you really wrote wingnuts that crazy and that dumb into a piece of fiction, everyone would accuse you of stereotyping and rampant bias (as though bias was somehow a bad thing for a writer to have). On the other hand, I'm thinking in the next book that one of the subplots will involve rightwing domestic terrorists doing something intensely stupid, so I guess I'll have a chance to test my theory.

[I. J. Parker]

Good place for her. :)

[Tom Cooke]

I'm not sure that Palin and her ilk are believable enough to use as characters in fiction.

[I. J. Parker]

How can you say that when she has millions of followers? Not sure what the demographic is for book buyers, but there are days when I have the sneaking suspicion that the smart people go to the library, leaving the field wide open for the rest of Americans to buy best-selling authors in book stores, grocery stores, and big box stores.

[Chip Cook]

Man, that is funny. I don't care what your politics are.
Since the references are important to the character and therefore to the book, I wonder how someone could become so offended.

[p. b. smith]

Jon, I really think your book would have been better if your protagonist had been a midget Lithuanian nun with dyslexia, compulsive hoarding syndrome and social anxiety requiring medication. Just saying...

[Jon Loomis]

Damn--that was gonna be my next one. Back to the drawing board...

[p. b. smith]

It's alright, Jon. You take it. Really, I mean it. Just remember me in your dedication.

[Chip Cook]

Hard to beat nuns, really.

[I. J. Parker]

You have tried?

[Jon Loomis]

I have. They're faster than they look.