{"id":20211,"date":"2023-10-24T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=20211"},"modified":"2023-10-24T12:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:05:51","slug":"robin-green-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/24\/robin-green-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Green Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re: The Only Girl<\/a><\/p>\n

Well holy fucking sh*t! \u00c2\u00a0Hi, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Robin. A couple business associates sent me what you wrote and you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t imagine – or maybe you can – what it means to me.<\/p>\n

The book was such a commercial flop (though it did better in Great Britain) that it wrecked me in a way. I never found out – or asked – what happened. The publisher seemed hot on it then all of a sudden a small run, no book tour, little publicity. Ghosted. My editor went on vacation (later someone told me they heard she had breast cancer) and my publicist moved to another house.<\/p>\n

So maybe just bad luck. But I really think the answer lies somewhere in your having written “you may not like Robin Green\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6”. They must have done a focus group and no one did. I know when the proposal went out one New York male editor who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like it gave it to his female editors to check his instinct and all their comments registered a definite distaste for me. They thought I was bragging on myself. One guy on Amazon complained I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been a drug addict or been sexually molested so what’s the point of a memoir? F*ck them all.<\/p>\n

But own husband didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like it. It put us in couples therapy. I haven’t written a word since.<\/p>\n

And then your letter. It is some kind of miracle to have found such a reader. I loved the book now here was someone, widely read and respected I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m told, who loved it too. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t thank you enough. Maybe I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even be trying, but as you may surmise, even with the wisdom of age, restraint is not my strong suit.<\/p>\n

Okay, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll stop. But just one more thing, okay? What you wrote made we want to think about writing again, and I thank you very much for that.<\/p>\n

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