I'm pissed.

Maybe I shouldn't be. Perhaps I should expect less; I don't know.

I post work on multiple sites.  Well, on a different site I've built a reputation as a sort of HEA, feel-good, everybody wins writer.  I guess I should have known to post my aggressive, erotic story Silverwolf there would throw people (even though I put a warning on the first chapter to explain it was very different from my usual offering).

I am utterly fine getting emails to say that "Hey, this isn't my thing, but I'll wait for Bluegrass Symphony."  I got a few of those, and they were cool.  I replied to thank them and moved on to do my thing.

Then the shit started.  About a dozen people emailed explicitly to try and get me to stop writing Silverwolf because it's "awful."  Nothing constructive.  No actual critique I could use to improve my work.  These were designed, specifically to discourage me from writing Silverwolf and to focus only on Bluegrass Symphony.

You know what?  I'm finishing Silverwolf.  I'm up to chapter ten on Bluegrass Symphony, and that's where it'll stay for a while.

They can choose to read or not, but I'm now convinced it's time to howl at the moon.

P.S. No, I'm not thinly veiling that the readership of GA has been problematic.  Y'all ain't the problem and have been great every step of the way.  I also don't want to give the impression that I don't want constructive feedback.  I DO.  What I'm describing is something else - something unhelpful, and intended to be discouraging.