I can no longer reply to fanmail

Why? Simply because there is too much of it! I did consider hiring assistants to reply for me, but decided against it after I asked myself what fans who email me want. I’m only guessing here, but this is what I think they want:

(a) for me to read their email

(b) to have their questions answered

(c) to get a reply

While I don’t have time to reply to emails, I do read every one that I receive. I endeavor to answer any answerable questions on this website, so do take a look around before emailing me. The page you should make your top priority to read before emailing me is the Frequently Asked Questions page. (And don’t complain to me about the spoiler answers spoiling the plot. They are on a separate page and you were warned not to click on the links to them until you’d read the books mentioned!)

Now and then someone will send me a question I haven’t answered on the site and if I have time, and the question is answerable, I will tackle these in my blog.

For examples of unanswerable questions, read my Silly Questions blog entry.

You might also find my blog entry on Fanmail I Love entertaining and insightful.

To ensure your email isn’t one of those I can’t read, check out The Art of the Legible Fanmail.

Also please note:
If you’ve come here after reading the last pages of The High Lord to send me a wailing complaint about the death of a certain character please, PLEASE, take a deep breath, stop and wait a day for the emotional effect of that book to wear off a little before you email me.

I’m not aiming to write books in which everyone is alive, shacked up with their perfect match, rich and successful at the end (if you want that, read a romance novel). I write in order to move people. I find wailing complaints about the end of The High Lord a sign of success… though I much, MUCH prefer it when the reader understands why it was the right ending for the story.

Occasionally I’ll get emails that are insulting. Mostly this appears to come about because a person not only disliked one of my books but appears to think that I’m to blame. To them I say: I don’t write these books purely to bother some stranger I never met before. If the books aren’t to your taste, they just aren’t to your taste. There are millions of books out there, and I think the odds are in my favour when I say you will find something you like eventually. Trust me. Keep looking.

Now, at last, here is a contact form.

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