![]() ![]() When the other woman would not agree to a video chat interview, Hale asked to speak to her over the phone. ![]() She admits that she paid for a background check on the owner of the house, and rented a car, with the intention of driving to the blogger's home. When a book club approached Hale about having a blogger interview her to promote the book, she gave the name of the Goodreads user, and received the other woman's address - to which she could send giveaway copies of her books - in return, according to her account. Writing for The Guardian in October of that year, Hale confessed to reading advance reviews of her work on Goodreads, something that "other authors warned not to do." When one blogger's vitriolic, one-star review caught her attention, Hale, by her own admission, "engaged in light stalking" to find out more about her detractor.įinding out more about the critical reviewer, whom Hale blamed in The Guardian piece for others' refusals to read or buy her book, involved a dive into the rabbit hole of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Here's what you need to know.īack in January 2014, Hale published her first book, a YA thriller titled No One Else Can Have You, through HarperTeen. ![]() Author Kathleen Hale, who admitted to "stalking" and showing up at the home of a Goodreads user who gave her book a bad review, is releasing a nonfiction essay collection about the experience this year titled Kathleen Hale Is A Crazy Stalker. ![]()
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