tired2. That being said, I am not the world's fastest email correspondent. I do my best, I really do, but I have a) email from my day job, b) my personal mail, c) my business mail, d) Mira Grant's mail, and e) all my other mail to deal with. Expect at least a seventy-two hour delay on anything that's not urgent.
3. Unless you're my agent, my publisher, or my boss, I decide what's urgent when it's in my inbox.
I'm as slow as I am because, in addition to all the things above, I'm trying to write three books, keep up with the comments on this blog, make new entries on this blog, update my website, and two or three dozen other things at any given time. The only way I could answer every email I receive in a swift and satisfying way is if I stopped doing anything else. My publishers would not be okay with this decision. Honestly, neither would I, as I think my head would explode.
So please, if I am not swift in answering your email, be patient. I understand wanting a reply now now now—I do it too; I'm doing it right now, waiting for answers on some really cool website graphic possibilities—but I just can't. Not if you want me to stay on top of everything else.
Thanks for understanding.
March 18 2011, 00:26:19 UTC 6 years ago
Some people feel like walking the Earth entitles them to get everything they want NOW. My general reaction, upon meeting such a person, is bemusement. If given a chance to respond (as in, not working retail and being paid to put up with it), my usual reaction is, "What are you, two?"
If I'm being charitable, I can imagine that people who whine about not getting e-mail replies within a couple of hours have never been in an e-mail backlog situation of their very own, to know how frustrating it can be.
November 18 2011, 19:51:58 UTC 5 years ago
November 18 2011, 20:43:18 UTC 5 years ago
But then, an awful lot of the people I'm emailing share a single slow computer between 12 staff, and get a chance to check email about once a week. So I know better than to whine about it.