Straight Up Evil
Juliet Gallagher was fairly certain she was losing her mind. Maybe it was because her editor was breathing down her neck again. She always got stressed when that happened.
But she had also been reading online reviews of her book lately and that was stressing her out too. Readers could be absolutely brutal and yet she couldn't stop herself. They weren't all bad…the good ones boosted her self-esteem. The problem was that the bad ones destroyed it so she suffered from extreme demotivation.
She only read the reviews because she was suffering from writer's block and had nothing else to do but that only made it worse. What was she doing as an author, anyway? She had only written one book that somehow skyrocketed its way into the number one slot on the New York Times bestseller list for a solid six months.