Dear eBook Authors,
Pfffft! Yeah, I know you have not written a eBook in years.
I wanted to thank you and congratulate you. I have been re-reading my earlier eBook reviews to update and reorganize and get them on the site here. You realize guys that with the economy being such a bumpy ride right now I am starting to get the feeling that eBooks and eReaders are being looked at seriously now, not so much just by new customers but more importantly by the New York Publishers. Nothing says re-gear and re-think as those trying to tighten the belts there during hard times. It’s just a matter of time before the balance falls in the eBook direction and that time is getting closer.
Unfortunately we all know that they will start tightening their collective belts with you guys first. Yep, I just think it will not be so easy to sell them stuff. I think you guys have the connections and the talent to fall back on and you already know of the ePublishers out there who will publish your stories and do right by you.
I have to admit I loved your first eBooks. I followed those offerings and I was even overjoyed when you got one of those big New York Publisher deals. It was about time you got paid. You were so funny and intelligent and had some outrageous stories to tell. But… Can I be honest here? I am not all that crazy about what they did to you.
I mean, how they toned your style down and made you just a tad less provocative and just a tad less shocking and just a tad less funny. The editing was good though. I am not accusing you of selling out or writing to their formula, although a few of you out there do have a formula and you do it well because it is yours. That is not the point.
I think they took the part I liked most about you. That heart, that raw, sincere, unpredictable, and funny as shit style your first eBooks had and they messed with it and molded it to meet their mainstream guidelines that those New York Published authors have to meet I guess. Which is why I think New York is failing their customers so exponentially but I’m just an idiot customer that gave up on them a long time ago, what do I know?
That heart was the part I liked about eBooks when I first discovered you and in particular what I liked about you, all shiny and new and full of potential. That is what those New York Publishers were missing and frankly between you and me. They still are missing it even though you write for them now.
Anyway, I still love you and support you and buy your paperbacks when I see them. I just continue to hope someday you take that story they turned down. You know, the one they said was not a mainstream enough of an idea (for them) or too shocking (for them) or too unsellable (for them) and you write that sucker and hand that baby to Samhain or Loose Id or Ellora’s Cave and you show those New York Publishers how really special you are.
Maybe it won’t make as much money but it will make me glad to see you writing what you want and how you want and being able to read some of that elusive something new, something different, something that excites you, that I have been missing in your latest paperbacks.
Thank you for creating the eBooks I still cherish and talk about constantly.
I miss you,
TeddyPig
Tags: Common Sense