| As the author of How I are Becomed a Very Much Gooder Author , a book in which I rcefreneed your meteoric rise, I have to say . while I understand your choice not to publish, I am a bit disappointed that you shelved it. While, clearly it doesn't, from what you've described, fit your Donovan Creed/John Locke Brand, the essence of a good story is honesty on the part of the author. You don't have to air all of your dirty laundry in every book. Nor do you have to present your books all under the same brand. Indeed, there might be something worthwhile to be had, by creating a separate brand through which you employ the same marketing techniques in order to build a separate fan base. Nora Roberts writes as J.D. Robb. I have a book coming out next year by Bill Collins because it doesn't match my Sevastian Winters Brand. But well written stories are always worth sharing .just not always sharing in the same company. I hope you will reconsider your choice to withhold that piece of yourself, but that you will instead find a way to brand it separately. You wrote the story because it mattered to do so. I think it likely also matters to tell it. Just my two cents!
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