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Hello everyone!
Before I update the next chapter, I just want to let something out. There are few readers who have not commented a single nice thing about this book, and I wonder why they are still reading.
I firmly believe that everyone has the right to choose what they want to read, just as an author has the freedom to shape the story according to their own storyline and vision. For someone to come and leave negative comments just to dampen the mood of the author and spread negativity to other readers is simply disheartening.
I was so over the top and eager to update this book last month, but now I had to force myself to open and continue this book.
I don't expect everyone to like my story. But I wanted to be respected as the writer of my own books.
You don't like where the story is heading, but still trusting the process? Thank you. Please feel free to stay, and we'll navigate this together until the end.
You don't like the characters and their decisions, and you don't like where the story is heading? You think the author is making a mess of her own story, and you don't trust her process at all in her recent books? My question is simple: Why are you still reading my books? Please do us all a favor and move on to books that will bring you joy and that will leave you in awe, and just let me finish my story without your negativity affecting my sanity and the peace of my readers who are enjoying the book. Or if your plan is to stay until the end to prove this book sucks, then feel free to stay, BUT PLEASE don't flood my comments anymore with the same negative comment chapter after chapter. Save it all, and give me the comment you think I deserve once the book is completed. But for now, let me write my own book.
I read books, too. And I have abandoned many that didn't awe me or if I didn't like where it was headed. I simply let go and moved on.
The world is already full of negativity. I write to free my mind from the stories clouding in my head, and I know many of my readers are reading to escape the real world and live in the fantasy that our world cannot provide. Please let us enjoy this world.
I appreciate your readership, but like in any relationship or stage of our lives, if something or someone isn't making you happy or giving you what you think you deserve, there is no shame in leaving rather than building a toxic relationship or environment.
That being said, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who keeps holding my hands as I write my books, whether I make you happy or crush your hearts. You are the very reason I keep showing up to write, even if some hurtful words make me want to stop writing and share my stories.
Much respect to everyone, Cassandra M
P.S. I'm not saying constructive criticism is not a good thing - I appreciate readers who leave me respectful comments correcting my grammar, my spelling, or even the wrong names that would slip from time to time. Or if you think something is wrong with my description, that's fine! This is totally different from the concern in my note today (I just want that to be clear).
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