Several years ago I met a woman on LJ who was in the same fandom I was in. We connected through fanfic and became friends. She even called me on the phone a few times and we talked for close to two hours each time. After a few years, she got one of her stories published by a small publishing house and pretty much left LJ to concentrate on her writing career, which has been pretty successful, if not that lucrative. I can understand that. Getting a writing career going is time consuming and I didn't begrudge her that time, although I missed her friendship.

I did friend her on FB when I was doing FB and we sort of kept in contact that way, but even that just sort of dried up after a while.

She showed up on LJ again last year to promote her latest book and we talked on LJ a bit. But when her promotion was over, she disappeared again. Suddenly, last week, she appeared again to promote another new book. She's been on for a few days and has commented on a few of my posts. I told her I don't do FB any more, so we traded e-mail addresses. However, she told me I'd need to contact her and she'd get back to me since she doesn't "do" e-mail.

I'm pretty sure that when her new book promotion is over, she's going to disappear again and I won't see her until her next book is out. I'm angry about this. I thought we were friends, but friendship is not a one-way street. Don't dump me, then show up again when you have something to sell, tell me to contact you because you won't be contacting me, and then disappear again. WTF? I will not be e-mailing her. /rant