A Public Apology for my Ebay Library

Dear Carla Kelly:
I have a lot of your books, and they're all from eBay. Sorry. I know you don't make any royalties from that, and I'm guessing you didn't make a lot of money off those books in the first place. And now they're all out of print, and no one can get them anymore, and I've had to buy your books off eBay like I'm a cheapskate, which I'm really not when it comes to books. I feel bad paying $1.50 for something I'll read and enjoy again and again. So, let me say: If your books were in print, I'd buy them new.




You'd need some new covers, though, 'cos I got laughed at over this one.

Dear Laura Kinsale:
I've had to buy some of your books from eBay, too. Sorry. The older ones are hard to find. I owe you some royalties. However, I offset this sin by buying Shadowheart and the reissue of For My Lady's Heart and two copies of Flowers from the Storm (one for me, one for a gift.) And I'll buy anything else of yours in print. If your older ones were in print, I'd buy them new.

Dear Judith Ivory:
I've been able to buy some of your stuff new but all your old Judy Cuevas books? Ebay. Sorry. I had to pay quite a bit for some of them, so since I can't pay you royalties, here's a tip: If you have any author copies lying around, sell them on eBay for lots of money. The fact that people will pay lots of money for your books says to me that if they were in print, we'd buy them new.

Dear Mary Balogh:
I can't buy your old books on eBay. They're too expensive because they're so rare. However, if they were in print, I'd buy them new. I did buy The Secret Pearl the week it came out.

Dear Roberta Gellis:
You said in an interview on Word Wenches about the Roselynde Chronicles reissue, cancelled by Harlequin two books in: "I have thought from time to time about getting them done by an epublisher that does POD, but obviously my agent is not in favor of the idea and I haven't worked up the energy to do it on my own." I bought both of them new, and if the rest were in print...

Well. I wonder what's on eBay today?