I feel that given a reader devotes their valuable time to and money on your tale that they do have a right to their opinion (even a bitter one) and you as the author must NEVER forget that...
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“1899” Was ***NOT*** The Good Old Days
How about history? The internal combustion engine on which we now rely simply cannot be viewed in isolation without any thought given to what had been before it. It is not as if it had not existed we would all dwell in immaculate urban pedestrianized New Yorker-style cartoon locales where everyone is cycling and doing yoga and going to therapy.
The Entertainer
By the way, I swear if you ever publish or "mine" from one of my emails here, I will murder you...
Of Equality Of Opinion
How I do wish we could just say to that type: "You know, please don't read my books, because they are too difficult for you..."
“I just didn’t want to be alive any more”
Nothing in that "interview" with the duchess was more upsetting, I felt, really, than her stating she had wished not to live any longer.
Friday Digest: 15 January 2021
Well, here we are again at the crossroads of life.
I Dissent
If you support him, I apologize. But this is my considered opinion after four years of him. I do not write this lightly.
In A Horrible National Place
I have not been this depressed since the afternoon of September 11, 2001; and I know I am not alone in that.
A “Review” That “Spooks And Horrifies” Too
Endings are, uh, I think, reasonably important to us as readers. I am of course interested in what will happen (or why would I be reading the book in the first place?), but I don't really want to know how a book ends... until I get to the end.
I Can Do “Dystopian”
What Do You Think They Know?
Occasionally the American featured celebrity tracing his/her family tree comes across as - much as I hate to say this - worryingly clueless about wider history and lives lived prior to the present.
One Of The Best Habits
Back to the actual point to the day: Kids having access to books. A love of reading is one of the best habits one can instill in a child. I saw my parents regularly reading for relaxation.
“Robert’s books about France, I’m talking with him…”
Recently I turned down an interview request from a US podcaster because I felt that I could not do full justice to her suggested main subject. I didn't think it would be fair talking with her merely for the sake of just talking - even if doing that might in some ways perhaps have been usefully self-promotional.
Twitter: A Great Idea, But…
I advise anyone now to be cautious, very cautious, on Twitter. The only reason I have not deleted my account is because I do like engaging carefully with decent people when possible. And many readers now expect authors to have Twitter accounts.
That Questioner’s Horse He Rode In On
If you have had experiences such as my family has had (and yours may have had too), you learn that there are those times that nothing can be done by others to stop self-destruction.
R. J. Nello 