Thank you for writing this. When I first read of your problem with the publisher, I had a gut feeling that what they were doing was very wrong. I wrote to you immediately and you were busy and I was busy and nothing went further. This post is the story I was looking for.
I'll repeat what I told you at the time. I heard Sam the Lion in "The Last Picture Show" saying, "I've been around this kind of trashy behavior all my life and I am just tired of it."
Pigs do really like it. Great wisdom in that, and reminds me of the relationship adage that “resentment kills all desire”
That experience would be enough to make anyone vote for Trump ;-)
A major theme of the second edition will be how Trump and other authoritarian strongmen are the inevitable outcome of this absurd behavior.
It doesn't matter how many times you write that truism down, they won't be listening!
Thank you for writing this. When I first read of your problem with the publisher, I had a gut feeling that what they were doing was very wrong. I wrote to you immediately and you were busy and I was busy and nothing went further. This post is the story I was looking for.
I'll repeat what I told you at the time. I heard Sam the Lion in "The Last Picture Show" saying, "I've been around this kind of trashy behavior all my life and I am just tired of it."
Sounds like you are perceived as a Very Dangerous Author, Rhyd. Keep going!
sucks to hear about your experience, but hope the second edition release is more positive! Any details on the release as yet?
Harrowing tale. So glad I found your books and substack.