I told myself a long time ago that some people would be really outraged over the things I write about in The Marbury Lens.
I'm okay with that.
I'm even okay with the person who wrote, "I have no idea who would enjoy this book and I wish I could wipe it out of my mind."
I wonder how people like Justin Bieber feel when some anonymous internet poster says stuff like that about one of his songs.
Maybe the person who wrote that about my book really is Justin Bieber.
I don't know Justin Bieber, but I think I'm okay with him. I have never even heard one of his songs, but I did see an enormous billboard with his face on City Walk in Universal.
He looks like a nice enough guy.
I mean, if I was sitting in my car in an underground parking complex late at night, weeping, alone, thinking about harming myself, and I got carjacked, I think I'd rather be carjacked by someone who looks exactly like Justin Bieber than, say, someone who looks like one of those flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
That would be something that I'd wish I could wipe out of my mind.
And now you're probably thinking about that, too, which makes this post just like Inception, except I haven't stolen ten dollars from your wallet.
Twenty-five if you bought popcorn and a drink.
Fifty, maybe, if you're not all alone and empty. Like me.
I told myself a long time ago people are going to hate you if you write this book.
Yeah, when I tell myself things, I tell them in the second-person POV.
I'm okay with that, though.
8 comments:
If you wanted everyone to like your books then you would be writing about vampires, and romance and fluffy little fairies playing tricks on mortals.
People don't like to face reality - too bad that's life.
A good book shouldn't vanish from your mind as soon as you finish it. It lingers and makes you think.
What I was trying to say is from your comments in the past concerning writing and YA and wanting to write about things that make people uncomfortable and someone says "I have no idea who would enjoy this book and I wish I could wipe it out of my mind"
is a compliment.
Thanks, Connie. I took it that way, too.
I never quite understood comments like that. It takes a special kind of egotism to presume if something doesn't please your aesthetic, then surly it mustn't appeal to anyone else.
What I find exciting about the book is that it appeals to a group of literature readers that aren't being reached. They've all but stopped publishing a book like Marbury Lens over the past few years despite the the success of the genre prior to Twilight.
I just had a conversation with someone about how my book Pure Sunshine would have a hard time getting published in today's YA market. I think Marbury has a good chance of turning that around.
I wish I could imprint The Marbury Lens into my brain, which is why I will be buying it in November to read it at least one more time.
Yep! Loved it, too. But you know that already. The good news is when people say things like that it means you've made it. Someone besides your immediate friends and family is reading it :)
That person who said the thing? about the mind and the wiping? Send them a copy of Nothing by Janne Teller. Fewer bugs, more cruelty - nobody does nihilism like the Danes.
Then laugh laugh laugh thinking about how his or her previously-pristine mind has been sullied by YA fiction.
After all, what good is a pristine mind?
This is looking like precognition, now. That makes me sad.
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