quote wrote:Re: Revisiting " Acknowldegemnts"
by Linda Brown » Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:09 am
I wrote to him too .... or.... through his lawyer actually......
I feel no responsibility to keep this confidential since he has already chosen to include his lawyer in this and my copy already went to my lawyer too so its pretty much an open book as far as I am concerned/
This was sent to his lawyer with the request that he forward it to Paul.
Paul,
I have had your letter on my desk now for a couple of weeks and I have to say.... its as much as a puzzle as your original descision to throw your hands in the air in 2009. Were you afraid that I would show up " unannounced"?... is that the reason for your nearly hostile letter? I can assure you that I had no thoughts of that.... Until of course I got your letter and read the accounting figures.
Are you happy with only selling... lets see,,, seven print copies?...24 Ebooks?.... and 35 "Kindle sales"?
Six Hundred Dollars every six months?....if it doesn't diminish.... means that it will take you roughly 18 years to get your investment back. Are we both going to be around to see that?
I sense that you feel that you started off well and focused on the hard facts of Dads story but somehow got led away from that with what you must feel now was my own fanciful imaginings. Is that about right? You think perhaps that was a mistake and that you might have stood a better chance of being taken more seriously as the biographer that you wanted to be.... if you somehow hadn't taken that turn and been persuaded(?) I guess.... to go in that direction. Is that what you have been feeling?
What would you say to going back over your " Biography of T. Townsend Brown" and making it exactly that... with ONLY the facts that are available to you at this exact moment.... and ONLY about Townsend Brown.
If we can agree that the influences of the characters of Morgan and Twigsnapper and yes.... me.... were a mistake for you then I encourage you to cut all that out of your book.... those story lines should never have been there in the first place..
Actually... to be fair to both you and me.... those stories from my journals and my life actually had no business being in the book that you first meant to write........ and they certainly were not included in the contract that we drew up together. You yourself wrote that you decided to include those other stories afterwards to bolster the work. It turns out, I think, that you felt that was a serious mistake. I would agree with you, it was..
Are we still on the same page?
New information is coming in about Dads actual activities on a daily basis and if you had the heart and the interest to rewrite and properly edit..... I think that you might find yourself where you wanted to be at the beginning.
Nothing wrong with starting fresh.
The book that you DID compose is still the best biography of Dad in existance. And for that I thank you very much.
Do you have the energy to talk about this with me?
I liked your letter head by the way.<g>
I am going to send this to your lawyers Email. He can forward it to you.
Linda
His response to me was basically. Thanks but no thanks, I am not interested in " revisiting the Townsend Brown story.
I doubt that contacting him is going to help at all because thats as far a move as I am ever going to make. Linda
Now ask this question, why all of a sudden would someone want to have the author of "Defying Gravity" remove all references from the ONLY sources that gave him ANY information?
Mikado