My letter to eMusic

Santa Fe journalist and music maven Steve Terrell clued me into what he rightly termed this revoltin’ development from eMusic: they’re raising their prices.

Yes, now. What a bright idea!

So I was moved to write them the following in response:

Dear eMusic:

While I’ve enjoyed and championed you service for years despite faults such as dubious tech support, if you raise your rates I intend to cancel my subscription.

Raising prices in a recession is a cardinal business sin. It’s not just wrong – as in cruel to your loyal customer base – it’s stupid. People are having to tighten up – and you expect them to pay *more* for what you’re selling? Does that really make sense?

So if your prices rise, I’m gone. And happily looking forward to your impending bankruptcy.

Sincerely,

Victor Milan

That really says what I had to say on the subject, so moving on …

Has it really been that long since I posted here? Yow! Apologies.

Been busy. Finished my rough draft on the Deathlands novel and got it in on time. Finished the rewrite in a week. Learned some drastic and invaluable lessons about writing – as in, how I do it – that I’ve had a blog post about partially drafted for a couple of weeks.

What I didn’t do so much during that very period was sleep. That caught up to me subsequently. With a bloody vengeance. And that’s my sniveling excuse for dereliction of my blogging duties: fatigue poisons beat the juice out of me!

During that spell I did manage to snag some R&R: walking with Emma Dog (not enough!), hanging and watching movies with my friends, and getting introduced to the wonderful world of first-person shooter games on XBox 360 by my friend Ty. What I didn’t feel like during that period was writing more. Sorries.

Also I’m rereading the giant mass o’ manuscript which is the rough of The Dinosaur Lords. Needs a lot of revising, which I knew going in – of course, that being the way I’m trying to learn to write. It’ll be manageable, though. And what do you know – hot diggity damn, it’s pretty good.

I’ll be posting about that as well we other matters soon. Was going to finish and pop up the “Lessons Learned” post I adverted to above today, but this unfortunate eMusic trick preempted that. Also got various other subjects burning to be addressed, including some great news I’ve put off sharing way too long.

Of course, I’m now going to put it off a little longer. Heh, heh.

Thanks for your patience, people. I will justify it. And thanks for continuing to let me entertain you!