Re: [ebook-community] Re: I Started A Publish ing Company – Now I Need Your Help

First, I've never written a book.  I'm a reader and I've been an avid reader for about 55 years, since my teens.
Second, I never suggested that you change book.  Or even that you change your future writing in response to your readers.  My hope is that writers write what they think they should write.  That seems to be necessary for the creative process.
I think I give up.  You guys keep reading things I'm not saying into what I am saying.  I don't get it but I don't think I'll try anymore.
Goodbye,Barry

--- On Wed, 10/13/10, sharon <[email protected]> wrote:

From: sharon <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Re: I Started A Publishing Company – Now I Need Your Help
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 5:12 PM















 
 



  


    
      
      
        How can you change something already in print concerning someone sexual

connotations?  Is an author suppose to say "oh sorry I'll just sit right now

 right this second and make them all headro-sexual's just for you."  





Constructive criticism is not running down the author and their way of

thinking





If you were to go around trying to please every one all the time you would

never succeed in doing anything else.





When some complained about your book did you rewrite it for them?  





Some people do complain just for the sake of complaining, others do it to

make trouble so they can sit back and laugh at what they have done. Some do

it for the attention.  It amazes me that you would think people like do not

exist.  I have seen for myself first hand at what some people will do to

make others unhappy to make themselves happy.  Or get attention and do it in

public.





So thanking them for their contacting you and being a fan seems like the

simplest way of handling it.  Not getting into a argument with the reader.

That was what was meant by getting in a contest with a skunk.  I just don't

have time to argue with a reader. 





Sharon


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From: Barry


Date: 10/13/2010 3:30:32 PM


To: [email protected]


Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Re: I Started A Publishing Company – Now I

Need Your Help


 


  


I'm pretty surprised at much in this discussion, but your contention that

readers who complain to authors are skunks seeking attention just amazes me.


I've never complained to an author but should I ever chose to I would hope I

d be taken a little more seriously.  I wouldn't really expect an author to

stop what he/she does because I complained but I'd sure like to think what I

said was considered.


I've been in audiobook forums that included authors, narrators and

publishers for decades.  I participated in discussions in rec.arts.books for

many years.  I didn't always agree with what writers and publishers had to

say but I don't recall them acting abusive toward their readers.  I wonder

what's going on here.





Barry





--- On Wed, 10/13/10, sharon <[email protected]> wrote:





From: sharon <[email protected]>


Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Re: I Started A Publishing Company – Now I

Need Your Help


To: [email protected]


Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 9:25 AM





 





I truly believe that people who complain to complain just want attention. 





They want to get something going it makes them feel important. It's a, "OH





look at me I got this author up set!" And when authors come back up set





then they are sitting back laughing and having a great time for themselves. 





This is all new to me, I am just now writing my first story. But I know I





would not bother getting into a pissing contest with a skunk.





So say thank you for your comments. I appreciate hearing from my fans. 





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From: auwg





Date: 10/13/2010 4:23:02 AM





To: [email protected]





Subject: [ebook-community] Re: I Started A Publishing Company – Now I Need





Your Help





--- In [email protected], "dtpollard947" <dtp940@...> wrote:





> Some ask people to stop complaining about the economic





> situation the country is in and create their own jobs.





There are cavilers and there are cavaliers.





Cavilers wail and complain but do nothing to help themselves.





Cavaliers look for opportunities and fill them.





Ed





Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press





Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction





http://www.AbintraPress.com





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