Charlaine Harris has written
her last book
in her VERY popular
Sookie Stackhouse series.
Wrapping up a series is always hard
but it is even harder
when so many people,
including the mentally fragile,
are emotionally invested in the series.
As Charlaine Harris
shares
“I’m very fortunate that
people are so invested in the series.
At the same time,
it can be a source of some anxiety
to get emails that say,
‘If Sookie doesn’t end up with Eric,
I’m going to kill myself.’ ”
I have a much smaller readership
yet I receive at least
one brutally graphic threatening email
a day.
It is not just writers receiving threats.
When Coca-Cola launched New Coke,
the executive also received death threats.
According to the Oxford dictionary,
fan is the shortened form of fanatical.
These fans are fanatical in healthy ways
and in unhealthy ways.
When you’re successful,
you WILL attract the crazies.
It is one of the costs of success.