Dearest Reader,
I must have rewritten this email to you half a dozen times, and here is yet another rewrite.
I’m supposed to tell you that the re-release of Tipsy Pelican Tavern Vol. 1 is now out and you should definitely go buy it. (In fact, it’s been out for the past couple of days and this email was supposed to be sent out a week ago.)
But what I really want to tell you is where I’m at and the reason why I’m re-releasing the books. I’m just not exactly sure how to do that, I guess I’m having one of those moments where one doesn’t quite have the words for the heart-and-mind content one intends to transmit. Probably because I’m a little uncomfortable about it. That’s usually the culprit.
So far, however, this rewrite is going a tad better than the previous ones, so I’m going to continue with it… here goes nothing:
I fell into a deep funk when AI went mainstream a couple of years ago. This was right before Volume 4 released. Luckily it was already mostly written. I fell into a funk because I felt I knew what was going to happen. Not immediately, maybe not even within a decade, but AI was eventually going to replace writers.
I even emailed the author Chris Fox, who is a sort of a guru among us self-published authors, to ask his thoughts on my ill-fated prophecy, hoping for his reassurances.