Vanity press review Sesslerwank, get it while it's wet!
Small wank, but cute. A few more pulls and it should spurt, but it's bound to be just a little spurt. You know the kind.

Following a link on GAFF that said "English teacher vs. badfic" led to Adele Sessler's Meadowhaven. It seems that Adele Sessler has gone the vanity press route with her fanfiction turned, uhm, fiction that isn't fanfiction.

Now, it all starts on this page of the meadowhaven bulletin boards. As stated by Wraxany on GAFF, Adele's fans are eating the book up and lavishing on the praise. Until one youngster says "My literature teacher made me an assignment of it... I shouldn't have been reading it during class. He came up to me as I was reading it (I thought he would have been happy to see me reading something) and marked on the page I was on with a red pen an error I simply overlooked. Now I have to read your wonderful book and mark every little grammatical error I find along the way.

Anyone who knows of Adele knows that this isn't going to go over well. But I, for one, was truly surprised when she broke out the old Not fair! Some of those mistakes were on purpose!

Uh-HUH. (This also ends up on the GAFF thread about Adele, which I already linked, and is worth looking over for a few sploogey comments and for a random line from Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead. A few good points there about Adele in general and some retrowank about her past "All Japanese look alike" comment, her deletion of threads she doesn't like, and her alleged penchant for little boys.)

But back to Meadowhaven, where a new poster posts a link to the book's Amazon page, asking everyone on the board to go and kiss the writer's ass so maybe she'll draw you some art someday give good reviews, and this is where it really starts to happen.

People do not give exclusively good reviews. I sense a war of vendettas on the Amazon page, which is a veritable orgy of wank, (IT SUCKS! IT RULES! IT SUCKS! IT RULES!) and one reviewer even points this out in her review. Adele, of course, catches wind of this, and really starts to yank on it.

People who give bad reviews are out to get me. Please go and counter the bad reviews.

They dun even own the book! (A few extra tissues to Adele for her use of "dun").

See, this kid on the internet looked over the entire book and didn't find many mistakes, so ha! (Because you know, any kid on the internet is worth ten professional editors.)

And finally, FINALLY we get Internet stalker!wank. the bad reviewers are actually stalkers. I don't know why they hate me so! I'm not going to read negative reviews. I'm going to keep writing, so nyeh. (Yes, she actually does say nyeh."

I'm sure it will go on from there, but probably not too much. Probably Adele or the mods will wipe up the stickiness and no one will ever know it was there unless the had a blacklight.

For what it's worth, I haven't read the book myself, but the wank is pretty cute.