I hasten to clarify that not all atheists are intolerant or cranks. The hate mail generated by HIDEAWAY came entirely from atheists. The correspondents were intolerant cranks if they had agreed with something I’d written, I would have been obliged to have my soul flushed, sanitized, and sandblasted.
I am basically a mellow guy who hopes that his work will in some humble way have a positive effect on the lives of my readers–and that I will be allowed to conduct my life without the constant company of heavily armed bodyguards.īy the time I received ten such missives, I realized that these hate letters were badges of honor. I was dismayed that my book had offended.
The volume of hate was never so great that the postal service had to deliver it in eighteen-wheelers–a mere fifty letters–but it satisfied. HIDEAWAY was the first novel of mine that elicited a pleasing quantity of hate mail.
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