Thread: Brian Keene on piracy
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Old 01-13-2012, 12:19 PM   #150
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
Brian Keene has complained about that aspect of the internet himself, in an interview in one of those book review podcast type things people do. Readers now, they expect to be able to interact with their favourite writers, and they get annoyed if they don't get an immediate reaction from them. The only way around that would be not to have any kind of internet presense under your real (or pen) name.
I still think this is patently silly. I have a blog where I publish something once a day at 9 am CST. I respond to comments when I have the time and inclination. I respond to personal emails in the same way.

No one has ever complained that I haven't gotten back to them in a timely manner. I'm sure that 1% of fans DO, but that doesn't mean the author should (a) get upset about it or (b) generalize that therefore all fans are like that.

I'm guessing that 99% of Rowling's readers would turn viciously on anyone who complained that she didn't answer their email.

Possibly I just work with really wonderfully reasonable people.
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