Paige Hawthorne: Blog

Despite that reader-petition, so unfair, to ban all Paige Hawthorne stories, I've completed a new one. Which my editors now have in their clumsy paws. "Winter's Game" takes us into terra incognita … the world of professional sports. Baseball, if I remember correctly.

Although there is a certain upside for you haters. Just because the editors have that potential masterpiece in hand, doesn't mean they'll finish anytime soon. Dyslexia, PTSD, dementia … this could take a while, gang.

Excelsior!

Paige

Who knew? Isn't it remarkable how much influence - real-life influence - this site has? My fictional character, Winter Jennings, muses on changes - okay, she bitches about alterations that the author doesn't like.

Two recent examples: Burnett's Vodka changed a perfectly classy bottle label into an ugly eyesore. Then, two Brookside grocery stores started using paper sacks without handles.

Guess what?

After posting derogatory Winter comments on SOL, I was delighted to see that Burnett's and the supermarkets reverted to their original products. Whimpering probably. Mewling.

Paige

Your notes to me are sometimes interesting, occasionally fascinating. Once in a while, even instructive. So, I will be putting some of those letters to work.

Now, notably, no reader's name, contact info, etc. will be shared. In fact, your privacy trumps everything else. And not just because some of my editorial staff are, to put it mildly, unhinged.

It occurred to me that those editors could benefit from the insights of the very readers they edit for. So, I'll be sharing - content only - some of your observations, opinions, suggestions, demands, with Thorny, Steven, and Mike.

It bears repeating that none of the three will have any way to find you, to harm you, to … well, let's not dwell on the dark side.

FWIW, the three most frequent reader musings are about guns, sex, and politics. In that order.

Paige

I opened voting. So, haters, vote on 'Vengeance' with … um, vengeance.

You're welcome,

Paige

Almost feel sorry for the haters. I can just feel them straining at the leash - a slathering Pit Bull, ferocious Doberman, deadly Reaper drone, massive Cane Corso. Well, maybe not a Reaper.

Ravenous, hyperventilating, desperate for me to turn on the voting for 'Winter's Vengeance'.

Sorry, the world rotates on a steady axis. At a measured pace.

> My stories are 16 chapters, no more, no fewer.

> Voting begins when Chapter 8 is posted.

> Break glass in case of Emergency.

Paige