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Talked to H's Grandmother today. She's a nice lady. She wants to buy a copy of my book so she can read it as she likes to read every night before bed. I've been stalling on this issue for a while now. Part of me really does not want H's family to read my book what with their strong Christian leanings and all. I just think it might freak them out and that they really ought to wait for a safer novel, like Cat's Apprentice. I didn't know how to articulate that to her, so I just told her how to order it. Here's hoping that I don't alienate H's family any more than my pagan wedding did. LOL

Finally squared everything away with Withersin for my review. I hope they like it, since I'm sending them a real copy. Sending out these copies gets pretty expensive since I have to buy all but the first five, plus another $2 apeice or however much. This one is getting FedEx'd, so that's about $6 but should reach them in 2 days while my book is still fresh in their minds. Yay!

It occurs to me that I've never posted my business card, which is pretty swell.
H designed it for me, just as he designs all my cool book related visual stuff. He did 6 or so designs for me to choose from and this was my fave.

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Well, as I like to say, anyone secure in their beliefs would not shield themselves from any piece of literature. For starters, too often, you find the people who so blithely ban books in school districts and libraries have not read them per se, aside from a stilted commentary written by others who probably haven't read the book in question themselves.

They would hopefully read it as an honest consumer of the language and judge it independently. That's all any author can ask for, I think.

Too true.
I can recall going to see Last Temptation of Christ and a bunch of protesters tried to talk my friend and I out of seeing the film. Turned out, none of the protesters had actually seen it.

I guess I'm more worried about what H's fam will think of me personally after they read my first novel. You've read it, so you know how someone might read it and infer that I'm some kind of crazy person. And since I'm married into their family, it becomes "their business." I dunno, the whole thing just makes me nervous.

To me, a critical reader is able to see that book and author are not necessarily the same thing. There are books with potentially disturbing characters which have been written by non-disturbing people - a good example might be "The Day Of The Locust" by Nathaniel West. West was a satirist who wrote a vivid, unsettling story about broken Hollywood dreams.

I often fear that people who read my stuff will see me as an egocentric, raving liberal, which I am to a certain point, but there is a side of me not germain to my writing, that will not appear in my writing, therefore people would need to know me to get the picture. I take comfort in the notion that those who know me see more than what is in the essays and rants.

That's true. People are certainly more than the sum of what they write. Then again, there are people like say, Salinger who are every bit as nutty as the things they write about.

It's all a rich tapestry, I guess. :-]

And since I'm married into their family, it becomes "their business."

I don't believe that. There's a lot of my "stuff" that I don't consider any of Brian's family's business or, for that matter, my biological family's business.

Maybe H's grandmother will be more open-minded than you think. After all, as

maxverbosity says, "the critical reader is able to see that book and author are not necessarily the same thing."

I suppose that's true. I just worry about the kind of reaction I'll get from them, remember, H's mom walked out of our wedding because she didn't like the way the ceremony was written. I'd hate to cause a rift between H and his fam.

But yeah, there is the possibility that they will not freak out at all.

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