Dear Sir,

Is your reader base limitless? Are you independently wealthy and thus care not at all for how many books you sell? Is this all part of some brilliant plan to enthrall me as a reader, so brilliant in fact that I cannot even fathom it? Has your internet been down? For over three months? Is your standard response time generally six months and I am thus one impatient mofo? Is your response so involved that it is taking you this long to compose it? Do you want it to be perfect for me? Should I be sending you a reminder? Weekly?

Because, really, I would like to know. I would like to know the reason that you have ignored the three e-mails I have sent in more than three months. The first one was only three lines. Two were compliments and the third was actually a question. Why is that so hard to answer? 'I don't know' would have been fine. Three little words, four seconds of your time, not helpful at all, but infinitely satisfying as compared with silence. I thought six weeks would be sufficient time to answer. You ignored the following two e-mails as well, although I no longer care about the answer to the original question-I doubt I will be purchasing the sequel when it comes out. No, now it is about the bigger picture. And about me wondering why.

Dakota Flint