Imagine this.

Previous posts have been about comments I get from people, most of whom have not read the book. They're reacting to an ad and simple description about the book. 

As George M. Cohan, Mae West, or maybe it was P.T. Parnum once said, (no one knows for sure who said it):

"I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right."

That might have been true back in the day, but not now in this time of instant mass awareness of people and the things they do based on "alternative facts" and outright lies.

Negative reaction to anything having to do with the Unlived books will hurt. So far, the majority of comments have been positive. But I do watch out for a "Mandela Effect" taking hold.

You'll find a good explanation here of what that is if you want details. For the rest of you, it has to do with a large group of people sharing a false memory based on facts, true or not, and/or events that never happened.

How might that relate to the Unlived ads?

A significant minority commenting on an Unlived ad inviting them to think about ('visit') their own unlived lives, assume that means they must first give up the life they do lead. A minority of that minority gets pretty heated, making it clear they want no part of that.

Fortunately, others defend Unlived ads pointing out that is not what they say. The book is fiction; no one can literally visit an alternative life whether or not they are willing to give up the one life they do live.

I write them. They come from my imagination. Those who read them can use their imaginations to decide what, if anything, they mean to them.

Just one more thing I never imagined I might have to deal with when I began writing the Unlived series.