One [review] compares Miss Alison’s writing to Mills and Boon novels, while another claims she “has no feel for fiction at all, no sense of what makes a plot tick along, no flair for language.” Another implies that the author’s success is connected to her marriage to Tim Waterstone, founder of the chain of High Street bookshops.

• angel guerra

  Please God, if I’m stranded at sea on a raft with three people, two pickles, a jar of Nivea face cream, and a pre-used tea bag, please don’t let one of the other survivors be a writer.

• Mary Novik

  “Please God, if I’m stranded at sea on a raft with three people, two pickles, a jar of Nivea face cream, and a pre-used tea bag, please don’t let one of the other survivors be a writer.”
  Dear Angel: I so wish I’d written that!

• I should know better, but …

  Troll.

• Barry

  I’m not sure I even know what it means, but it was funny as hell.

  (Well, officially, as someone who likes writers, I disagree. But I laughed … and shared it with the office.)