Your back catalogue is amazing and accomplished and does what it needs to for the people who most need it. Never regret it, or let anyone tell you you should. Time changes people and life changes people and writers/artist are people (for anyone who might forget this 🙄) of course you'll change and evolve and grow, that's how it should be 😊. I'm so glad you've won this battle, keep going, and fight like a girl 🤭💖
I read All the Rage, The Project, and Sadie, first, because I found them in that sequence. Then I found Cracked Up To Be and Some Girls Are. I reread them both. I loved them. You wrote that you see your earlier work through the eyes of we, your readers, so I, too, needed to comment. Your early work is excellent. All your work has been excellent. You could not do otherwise.
To have a creative body of work that spans 14 years says so much about your ability to translate your experiences onto the page through all of your iterations. And there are many more iterations and incarnations to come! Congrats on this reissue...and please resist the pull to be a revisionist of your history or your books' value! Readers will find your books when they need them, just as you wrote what you needed to at that time. We're with you on your journey!
That internal doc is surprisingly close to how I tell your people about your books, so I'm glad I'm on the right track. Excited for this reissue and for your books getting into more hands.
It's so interesting, because people see and engage with your early career work regularly. No one sees a bookseller letter I wrote when I was 24--both my successes and failures live in my own memory and maybe in the memories of my authors.
Ahhhh! YES! This is great news. I just replaced my ereader this weekend so I know what my inaugural purchases for it will be. :)
I do understand the complexity of feeling you must have about it, though.
Your back catalogue is amazing and accomplished and does what it needs to for the people who most need it. Never regret it, or let anyone tell you you should. Time changes people and life changes people and writers/artist are people (for anyone who might forget this 🙄) of course you'll change and evolve and grow, that's how it should be 😊. I'm so glad you've won this battle, keep going, and fight like a girl 🤭💖
I read All the Rage, The Project, and Sadie, first, because I found them in that sequence. Then I found Cracked Up To Be and Some Girls Are. I reread them both. I loved them. You wrote that you see your earlier work through the eyes of we, your readers, so I, too, needed to comment. Your early work is excellent. All your work has been excellent. You could not do otherwise.
To have a creative body of work that spans 14 years says so much about your ability to translate your experiences onto the page through all of your iterations. And there are many more iterations and incarnations to come! Congrats on this reissue...and please resist the pull to be a revisionist of your history or your books' value! Readers will find your books when they need them, just as you wrote what you needed to at that time. We're with you on your journey!
Yay! So happy about this!
As Bob Cratchit said in the best (1984) 'A Christmas Carol' offering..."A triumph my dear, another triumph!" 💗
That internal doc is surprisingly close to how I tell your people about your books, so I'm glad I'm on the right track. Excited for this reissue and for your books getting into more hands.
It's so interesting, because people see and engage with your early career work regularly. No one sees a bookseller letter I wrote when I was 24--both my successes and failures live in my own memory and maybe in the memories of my authors.