I say:
I am a grammer nazi. Yes, I confess it. Bad grammar ruins a story, jolts the reader out of willing suspension of disbelief, and treats the reader like an idiot. Nothing in Tabloid Purposes is scary.

Pickle-dick says:
I noticed how most of the writers who are bashing on me are just in it for the dollar signs and their hearts aren't in the genre.

I say:

Most writers are not in the genre for the dollar signs, there isn’t enough money to be made. However, it is nice to be paid for doing what you love. Ask anyone working in the arts and crafts industry. You do it because you love it, and the money

Pickle-dick says:

So I crossed into the true crime genre and creative nonfiction because if I do that, I know I'm going to be taken seriously. I know my readership well enough to say they know what they want when it comes to horror. They want things that scare the crap out of them. So when I joined the HWA I was looking for other self-published authors who do embrace the idea of self-publishing their book and are taken seriously enough to actually give them the time of day. My philosophy of publishing might be different than what is seen on various message boards -- and I might not follow the rules when it comes to their idea what horror is.

I say:
No one will ever take you seriously. Your fiction and that of the people in your anthology do not scare anyone. They are too badly written to scare anyone. Why would you join a professional writers organization to find and support amateur writers? You aren’t even an amateur, you are a piss poor illiterate who needs to get a job and a life.

Pickle-dick says:
So I will say this much, I have a few authors in my crosshairs and they are going to stay in my crosshairs for many years to come.

I say:
Yes, pickle-dick, but what you fail to understand is that it works both ways. Cussedness has vowed to keep you in her crosshairs for as long as she lives. Furthermore, so long as you continue to harrass her, eventually you will find yourself going 'mano a mano' with me in some corner of reality that you will not like at all.

Pickle-Dick says:
Andreas, you will never become published and the assclowns who keep running up and down saying that Reality Check isn't a legit anthology -- I hate to break it to them, there are some world class authors on there and the stories aren't meant to be picked apart like some fucking grammar nazi but to be enjoyed for what they are.

I say:
Again, the old cliché that is so worn out you couldn’t use it for an ass wipe, “I hate to break it to you.” Andreas, whose work I have had the pleasure to read, is a far better writer than you will ever be. I suggest you take a course in remedial grammar for illiterates.

Pickle Dick says:
I read the anthology cover to cover and will say it is an anthology that was well assembled. The only thing I wish it was was a few hundred pages longer than what it is-- Andrew T. Fife did a toure de force on there and so did Terry Lloyd Vinson, so if those who are taking a big piss on the anthology because my name is attached to it -- they can go find a lump of shit and choke on it.

I say:
Fife’s piece was not a ‘tour de force’ (there is no ‘e’ on the end of tour there, pickle-dick) it was a piece of mediocre cliché riddled prose. You would not recognize good writing if it bit you on the ass. People are not “pissing” on the book simply because you are in it, although that is as good an excuse as any, but because the writing in it is generally not up to professional standards.


Enjoy your cow patties, pickle-dick, that seems to be the only thing coming out of your mouth, your brain and onto the computer