Step away from the hoity toity

I’m a critical reader.
I read loads of YA and MG books and some of them leave me cold. Meh. (shrugs shoulders).
I pretty much always read a best-seller out of curiosity and frequently I am punished for it.
We used to talk about the lowest common denominator in the music business. It used to drive me crazy how predictable everything was until something innovative came around (usually backed with enough marketing money to register) and the flow would change direction and copy that new thing for a while until it was exhausted and the last vestige of creativity had been wrung from it. Cool sh*t without the capital backing usually just languished in the underground, just out of reach of the populace radar.
Incidentally, want to be inspired, excited by music? Always look to indie labels and the underground. (Just my opinion).
Perhaps I am filled with the milk of human kindness just now. Blueberry season is coming and I could eat them all day.
I believe that Canada grows many blueberries, and this makes me anxious to move there as quickly as possible.
Or is it cranberries?
That would burst the bubble.
However I am optimistic and soon to be filled with blueberries.
I was thinking that as a writer I should get off my high horse.
I do not speak ill of other writers on this blog (although I may have alluded to certain ***** in the past.) If I have nothing good to say, then I say nothing at all. In public, that is. In private I am free to mock them unmercifully.
But you know that is sort of hypocritical of me.
Because I am in no way the arbiter of taste. Someone liked these books enough to buy vast quantities of them and it couldn’t have just been the author’s mother and aunts.
My mother and aunts bought many copies of my first book, so I am aware of their buying power.
Who am I to sh*t all over a reader’s opinion? The book made them happy. It gave them pleasure.
Hey!
That’s a good thing.
So I hereby vow to get off my high horse and not turn my nose up at other authors who work as hard as I do.
(We’ll see how long that lasts!)