Emilie Autumn
Oh thank you, I'm so glad you noticed and like them!
In the Audiobook, I had been encouraged to leave them out, particularly to make the book a bit more friendly to a younger audience who may have a harder time processing the darker bits of those diaries. However, as they are back in the new eBook (I've made the decision to publish independently so that I can keep the darker bits that publishers were put off by, and let the audience decide what it can handle), I am contemplating recording them for the next printing of the audiobook in order to have the book and audiobook match up:). Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this change!
Almost all of the additional diaries were written before the hospital commitment, which is why Emilie is so worried that the staff is reading her diary - she knows that those bits that are in her same notebook will incriminate her as being more dangerous/insane than she is desperately trying to make everyone believe she is. As the end of the new eBook shows, you see whether she had reason to be afraid or not (trying desperately not to show spoilers;).
I made the decision to release what was in my journals, which was most of the book, both the hospital and Asylum worlds, perhaps 6 months after I managed to escape. My music career was beginning to take off with the release of Opheliac, which pre-dates the book, and I had this feeling that no one would really ever understand what my music was about, or who I really was, if they didn't know my complete story. I'm sure that many people were put off by the truth I told, but for the people who would eventually become Plague Rats, I believe it was very important, and what I most wanted to feel was that, if people liked me, they should like me for the right reasons.
Of course, now the audience for the book is even greater than the audience for my music, with many people reading it that don't know me as a musician at all, and I actually really appreciate having the opportunity to be read simply from a literary standpoint. My hope is that new readers of the Asylum will become Plague Rats and join us in our mission to spread the Plague of individuality to the death:)!!
So much love,
EA
In the Audiobook, I had been encouraged to leave them out, particularly to make the book a bit more friendly to a younger audience who may have a harder time processing the darker bits of those diaries. However, as they are back in the new eBook (I've made the decision to publish independently so that I can keep the darker bits that publishers were put off by, and let the audience decide what it can handle), I am contemplating recording them for the next printing of the audiobook in order to have the book and audiobook match up:). Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this change!
Almost all of the additional diaries were written before the hospital commitment, which is why Emilie is so worried that the staff is reading her diary - she knows that those bits that are in her same notebook will incriminate her as being more dangerous/insane than she is desperately trying to make everyone believe she is. As the end of the new eBook shows, you see whether she had reason to be afraid or not (trying desperately not to show spoilers;).
I made the decision to release what was in my journals, which was most of the book, both the hospital and Asylum worlds, perhaps 6 months after I managed to escape. My music career was beginning to take off with the release of Opheliac, which pre-dates the book, and I had this feeling that no one would really ever understand what my music was about, or who I really was, if they didn't know my complete story. I'm sure that many people were put off by the truth I told, but for the people who would eventually become Plague Rats, I believe it was very important, and what I most wanted to feel was that, if people liked me, they should like me for the right reasons.
Of course, now the audience for the book is even greater than the audience for my music, with many people reading it that don't know me as a musician at all, and I actually really appreciate having the opportunity to be read simply from a literary standpoint. My hope is that new readers of the Asylum will become Plague Rats and join us in our mission to spread the Plague of individuality to the death:)!!
So much love,
EA
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Rasheeda Wilson
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Emilie Autumn:
Hi, EA. I have the read the story many times over the years and I always interpreted the contents of the Asylum Letters to be an autobiographical allegory. That they mirrored events in your personal life from your early life to your psych stay. Am I right in understanding Emil-y's story this way? I believe you were telling a lot of the truth in the 'fictional' part ironically enough. Love you so much xoxo
A Goodreads user
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Emilie Autumn:
Will you ever do a book tour? Love from the Netherlands xx (((>*.*<)))
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