Hello, I hope all is well with you. I remember reading your AA books when I was 15/16. I am now 21, in college and I remember how I felt reading your books in high school, they were very engaging and honestly distracted me from the personal issues I had going on at the time.
I understand that you now view your work as cringe and the ideas, morals, beliefs that you had in those books do not fully represent you anymore. I respect that completely. Growth is important, and it’s clear that you’ve evolved since writing those books.
But I still wonder, do you think there’s a way for those stories to exist online without compromising who you are now? Maybe re-uploaded with a disclaimer or note about how your perspectives have changed?
Because while those books may not represent your current self, they meant the world to someone like me back then—and I know I’m not the only one given these comments.
Thank you for your work and I hope you might take a moment to think about whether there’s a way for those stories to still exist without compromising on yourself.