Queen here.
I’ve been thinking, and I’m pretty sure that the reason our holder has been so slow to do anything with her already written books is because of the Crash of ’18. I mean, this was a CRASH, if you know what I mean. A real head-crash. Not like when I.T. people pound their heads on their keyboards and call it a ‘head-crash’ (They’re so cute when they do that. You have to think that computer programmers, as a race, only have a few jokes they can actually use. I say this with love. Our holder used to be one of them.) A real, bit scraping, disk-media dust manufacturing, blue-screen-of-death head-crash.
It was a hard time for our holder. There were real tears. For a time she was convinced that fate had determined she was not supposed to be an author, since she lost her entire repertoire. We, in the castle, got to witness this- she had already finished our place – along with the Rabbits, who were also out of the drawer. The rest of our population (in the drawer) got to hear the muffled exclamations of despair, as she roamed around the basement lamenting her lot. So sad.
Now, I’m not saying all this has all been a bad thing, for us. While she was sulking and cursing computers, she got busy and finished several of our houses. But it seems that the siren call of writing drew her back to the keyboard.
So anyway, months later, after she got a new computer, she found a thumb drive stowed in the back of a cupboard that had some of her books on it. There were hallelujahs. This was not a complete triumph, however, because the versions of the books on the thumb drive weren’t the most recent. So she pulled up her big-girl panties, plowed into the wreckage, and harvested a couple of titles. Then sat on them. Maybe she’s scared, or something. Maybe losing them once has made her wary of letting them go out into the world.
I suspect our holder is somewhat OCD. If you don’t know what that is, it means ‘everything has to be perfect’. I say, so what if you’ve only got the first volume of the Kindle trilogy done? The more you work on the nots you recovered for the second installment, the more you remember what you had already put into it, right? Having to write a book twice can’t be that bad, can it? I suspect that somewhere in her brain is a badly formed dream of dumping her entire completed catalog onto the internet in one swoop, then standing up to receive the laurels. I hate to tell you, JZ, but that ain’t the way it works anymore. No, you have to build up your own reader list, do your own publicity, and most of all have a website!!!
Eh, voila. That means here it is.
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