I subscribe to a ton of author newsletters and actually read many of them. I recently received one from an author who was always on my instant buy list, I love her stuff, read and reread many times. It made me realize how I hadn’t even read the most recent release, even though I usually devour them immediately. I wasn’t at all excited about it. I think what happened was there was a duet release where part 1 came out and part 2 was meant to come out I think a few months later. I preordered, as I always did. Then it got pushed multiple times, the author indicated they were dealing with personal issues maybe vaguely related to mental health (I don’t remember for sure exactly what they said). Part 2 got delayed over a year. While I waited I continued to get newsletters advertising backlist stuff. Part 2 was finally released and I didn’t read it, I hadn’t read part 1 yet. I thought I’d give it a whirl, but when I tried I wasn’t into it. I’m kind of bummed because I don’t have a ton of authors that are instant but for me and I really like supporting indie authors since that’s so hard to break into but… I don’t know many the newsletter just made me think how little I cared about anything the were putting out. Maybe it’s a phase I am a mood reader but it doesn’t feel that way. Have you ever fallen out of love with an author and fallen back in?
I’m not going to name the author because I don’t think that’s fair.