Future Shock

[faustfatale]

A reader just asked me if I would update the technology in my first novel CONTROL FREAK if I were to release it as an eBook. I’ve given this a lot of thought. I thought about it back when the second edition was released in 2002. (Fuck me, was that really almost 10 years ago?) I went around and around with myself about it but ultimately decided not

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[octoberland]

Funny. I was just thinking about this earlier this evening while rereading an old story of mine. In it the character is writing on a typewriter. Not because she's trying to be nostalgic or old school but because when I wrote it there weren't laptops and home computers weren't yet commonplace. I was rereading the story because I was double checking it before sending it off to an editor and briefly considered changing the typewriter but in the end I decided not to. I figured ultimately that it didn't impact the story negatively and I wanted to be true to what I had originally written.

Personally, as a reader, I have no problem reading something written with old technology in it. In fact if that's how it was originally written I'd rather read it as such. I feel like I might lose something of the authentic experience if it were updated. But I tend to be old fashioned. I still read paper books and have zero interest in eBooks. That being said, if Control Freak came out as an eBook I'd pimp the hell out of it because it's one of my favorite books.