This article comes from the Los Angeles Times. It is a “lesson” in self control. To read the whole story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-jc-literary-agent-assault-twitter-20120914,0,7168502.story?track=rss
On Thursday, the Twitter feed of @BookaliciousPam was full of the normal posts: plans to attend an upcoming writers’ conference, which galley service she preferred, enthusiasm for good books. Then she wrote that she had just been the victim of attempted carjacking.
But it wasn’t a carjacking; it was an attack by an author whose work she had rejected.
Pam van Hylckama Vlieg began working as a literary agent for San Francisco’s Larsen Pomada Literary Agency this summer. For years she’s been blogging about romance as Bookalicious and running a separate kids’ literature blog. She’s one of those people who has been comfortable living online, using Twitter, Facebook, and the check-in app Foursquare. And that may have been the problem.
Every Woman Dreams... 
Scary.
Amen!
That is horrible, I feel for her how scary would that have been. I find in todays society controling your anger is hard for alot. I have a FB page not family FB I have it for my book review blog. Typically I don’t like FB, but a person on their was posting non stop about politics, as a navy veteran I made a comment, because her post said that the SLC tribune did not support Romney and they are mormon (meaning the paper) she went on to say that SLC Tribune supports Obama. My comment was I live in Utah and have been getting that paper for 8 years and never have seen just a plug for Obama they report good and bad on both of them. Then I said that I am mormon but support Romney for reasons other than just being mormon. She not only messaged me but her friends, saying hurtful thing not only to me but my family. Threatning my children, I was appalld and de-friended all the people who did this but they got my email from my blog and continued. It was mean hurtful and out of control. I have a 10 year old that can control his emotions better than them. I feel for this woman, threats, pain and then a physical attack what are we coming too. Anger is a hurtful emotion will eat you up. Thanks for posting sorry for the long comment:)
Krista,
I often swallow my words and bit my tongue to keep from responding. Unfortunately, we all have those moments when we choose to stand up to the “silliness.” Just as unfortunately, our responses open up more censure.
As an author, I would love to respond to some of my reviews, but I have to look the other way. Yet, the disdain is very hurtful.