[He shakes his head and snorts.] Author's logic; and I don't mean just her - I heard a joke once that if any given writer were to meet their characters, and said characters were able to recognize that the author was the one responsible for their situation, most writers would be lucky to escape with their lives.

And given some things I've seen floating around fandom I've had to watch in side comments and notes on things they've written?

I imagine she still thinks of us as "fictional" and not "real" - "uncooperative figments of her imagination" or something.