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The literary equivalent to Sam

posted 13 years ago by rnigma-1
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Meet Jacqueline Howett.
Her self published novel "The Greek Seaman" is available on Amazon. Back in March, blogger "Big Al" posted his review, which gave it only 2 stars but wasn't all that harsh:
http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/2011/03/greek-seaman-jacqueline-howet t.html

What were harsh were Howett's rebuttals, culminating in a meltdown in which she told Al et al. to "F--- off!" Twice.

The reviewers on Amazon were less kind, and the one good review came from someone with a name similar to the author.

An actual passage from the book: "Don and Katy watched hypnotically Gino place more coffees out at another table with supreme balance."

Here is Howett reading an excerpt from her book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ou_oOGuDBw

(edit: she made that video private after all the blowback she got. Howett also removed her "F--- off" comments from Big Al's blog.)

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[–] SherlockVonEinstein 13 years ago

here are excerpts of the first three chapters of her book:

http://authorjacquelinehowett.weebly.com/exerpt-from-the-greek-seaman.html

[–] panda_monium 11 years ago

From her Amazon page:
"My novel, The Greek Seaman has been taken down to be given to another 2nd Editor to be re-proofed. Thanks for your patience."