Bestselling Author Throws Embarrassing Hissyfit on Twitter After Book Snub

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | December 4, 2014 |

Some of you may know Ayelet Waldman as the author of The Mommy-Track Mysteries. Some of you may know her from the non-fiction work of her husband, Michael Chabon. Some of you may remember her as the woman who probably alienated most of her friends by proclaiming in the NYTimes that she has a fantastic sex life while the rest of the mothers in her social groups have lousy sex lives and basically conceded that she loved her husband more than her children (kind of).

She’s a treat. She’s also spectacularly, profoundly terrible at social media, as attested by the hissyfit she threw after her well-reviewed book, Love and Treasure, failed to make the NYTimes 100 notable books of 2014.

I am really not dealing well with having failed to make the @nytimes notable book list. Love & Treasure is a fucking great novel IISSM. — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

I never complain about this shit, but there are MANY books on that notable list with reviews that were NOWHERE near as good as mine. — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

What do they mean by "Notable?" How does a book that got a decidedly mediocre review count as "notable" when one with a good one doesn't? — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

Sometimes "being a writer" totally sucks. If it weren't for the actual writing, I think I'd go back to being a criminal defense attorney. — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

It's just so fucking demoralizing. You pour your heart into your work, you get awesome reviews, and then someone decides it's not "notable." — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

I mean. Why do I bother? I could write a fucking journal. — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

I'm sorry I'm being such a pussy. There are real problems in the world. I'm just going to suck it up and do something good for someone else. — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

That’s just straight-up embarrassing. I am both appalled by her childish behavior, and a little mortified on her behalf.

If you also feel bad for her, you can, uh, make her feel better by buying her book, and she will make donations to charity.

You know what? Do me a favor. Preorder my fucking paperback to make me feel better. http://t.co/BuNQhh3lpR http://t.co/p3iIq9N9hE — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

For every preorder I'll donate $1 to http://t.co/FDb9Onsude. Fuck the fucking NY Times. — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 2, 2014

I don’t think she’s doing herself any favors in responding to the criticism her tweets received, however.

To all you sanctimonious haters: your disappointments are always reasonable, right? You're paragons of sense and balance? #glasshouses — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 4, 2014

You know the difference between me and you? I express the hurt, and then channel it into something useful, like scholarship donations. — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 4, 2014

What do (some of) you do? Spend your lives on twitter being snarky and cruel? When's the last time you did something for someone else? — Ayelet Waldman (@ayeletw) December 4, 2014

Uh, well now who is being sanctimonious?

via The Daily Dot

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