receiving end of an email scolding me for wasting time writing blog posts, and hanging on social media, when I ought

this is not one of those parasitic relationships where one organism cannot live without the other, nor is it that by buying one of your books a person automatically has certain possessive rights. Nor do they *know* you (as some recent posts about authors pasts and biases has proved) because they love your books.

I buy your (and Steves's) books, I have met you in person, and you were different (in a good way) than I had imagined you might be, but, I still was looking for that Clutch Turtle ... just in case..