Comments on: You Guys Are Great http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/ Children's Book Author Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:22:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lori-Lyn Mosby http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-7206 Lori-Lyn Mosby Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:22:37 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-7206 I have just finished reading the Charlotte books to two of my girls ( ages 10 and 8). We have read the Martha Years also. I am so sorry that you won't be writing "the rest of the story". I, the mom, find myself thinking of Charlotte and Martha during the day and wishing I knew more. Isn't there SOMETHING that can be done??? We SO enjoyed the stories! Thank you for your efforts. God bless and we look forward to a continuation of the stories in the future. Lori-Lyn Mosby I have just finished reading the Charlotte books to two of my girls ( ages 10 and 8). We have read the Martha Years also. I am so sorry that you won’t be writing “the rest of the story”. I, the mom, find myself thinking of Charlotte and Martha during the day and wishing I knew more. Isn’t there SOMETHING that can be done??? We SO enjoyed the stories! Thank you for your efforts. God bless and we look forward to a continuation of the stories in the future. Lori-Lyn Mosby

]]> By: Jessica http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3653 Jessica Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:59:07 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3653 Dear Mrs. Wiley, I am very sorry to hear of this. I loved your books! I decided to check your site to see when the rest of the series would come out, only to find they won't! I was SOOOOO looking foreward to them! :( I might cry about this. I love Laura Ingalls. I UNDERSTAND her so well. It was awesome to be able to read yours, which were similar to hers. Your books were so enjoyable. I will pray you'll write more one day. I agree with what you said about abridged versions. You know, people's volcabularys nowadays are awful. I think this has a lot to do with what they read. We really don't need any more abridged books. And now, I must go break the news to my cousin. Bye! J, 17 Dear Mrs. Wiley,
I am very sorry to hear of this. I loved your books! I decided to check your site to see when the rest of the series would come out, only to find they won’t! I was SOOOOO looking foreward to them! :( I might cry about this. I love Laura Ingalls. I UNDERSTAND her so well. It was awesome to be able to read yours, which were similar to hers. Your books were so enjoyable. I will pray you’ll write more one day.
I agree with what you said about abridged versions. You know, people’s volcabularys nowadays are awful. I think this has a lot to do with what they read. We really don’t need any more abridged books.

And now, I must go break the news to my cousin. Bye! J, 17

]]> By: Laura http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3652 Laura Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:04:37 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3652 I came across this website by accident when researching info on Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family--I don't know why it never crossed my mind before to search under the author of the Martha and Charlotte stories to find out why a new novel hasn't come out! And now I know why--how extremely disappointing there will be no more by this wonderful author! While my own children aren't old enough to enjoy the stories yet, I have collected and read them myself because I have been an avid LH fan since childhood. But, even more diappointing is how the publisher is treating these books! Why must everything be about the almighty dollar these days? I'm sure they must've been making SOME money from them! Wasn't it enough? I am so glad now that I bought all the hardcovers right away! I am so sorry there will be no more... I came across this website by accident when researching info on Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family–I don’t know why it never crossed my mind before to search under the author of the Martha and Charlotte stories to find out why a new novel hasn’t come out! And now I know why–how extremely disappointing there will be no more by this wonderful author! While my own children aren’t old enough to enjoy the stories yet, I have collected and read them myself because I have been an avid LH fan since childhood. But, even more diappointing is how the publisher is treating these books! Why must everything be about the almighty dollar these days? I’m sure they must’ve been making SOME money from them! Wasn’t it enough? I am so glad now that I bought all the hardcovers right away! I am so sorry there will be no more…

]]> By: Nancy http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3651 Nancy Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:50:44 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3651 Dear Melissa, Another heartfelt plea, please, for you to consider sharing the sources for what you know about Martha and Charlotte's life in Boston--if there are to be no more books about her, I desperately want to make a "pilgrimage" of sorts to Martha's grave if it's still there. Also, I plead for books for my two littler boys--there are not so many historical fiction books similar to the Martha/Charlotte books that are winsome reads for boys ages about 4 1/2 to 8ish. Please write some? Warmly, Nancy Dear Melissa,

Another heartfelt plea, please, for you to consider sharing the sources for what you know about Martha and Charlotte’s life in Boston–if there are to be no more books about her, I desperately want to make a “pilgrimage” of sorts to Martha’s grave if it’s still there.

Also, I plead for books for my two littler boys–there are not so many historical fiction books similar to the Martha/Charlotte books that are winsome reads for boys ages about 4 1/2 to 8ish. Please write some?

Warmly,
Nancy

]]> By: Olyvia http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3650 Olyvia Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:26:48 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3650 Dear Melissa, I too had been waiting on bated breath for a new Martha or Charlotte book and was extremely sad to read this now six-month-old blog and find out there will be no more. I'm extremely grateful to have purchased your books right when they came out (I never found them in hardcover though :[) and won't have to worry now about trying to find them in their original form (Little House in the Highlands is selling for $50.00!). I'm really disappointed in Harper Collins and their decision to do this to the Little House books and to change the covers, which I find tacky. I do hope you'd be willing to answer in the future some of the questions we had about Martha and Charlotte that were never answered in the books. Thanks for everything! - Olyvia Dear Melissa,

I too had been waiting on bated breath for a new Martha or Charlotte book and was extremely sad to read this now six-month-old blog and find out there will be no more. I’m extremely grateful to have purchased your books right when they came out (I never found them in hardcover though :[) and won’t have to worry now about trying to find them in their original form (Little House in the Highlands is selling for $50.00!). I’m really disappointed in Harper Collins and their decision to do this to the Little House books and to change the covers, which I find tacky.

I do hope you’d be willing to answer in the future some of the questions we had about Martha and Charlotte that were never answered in the books.

Thanks for everything!

- Olyvia

]]> By: Colette Wellman http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3649 Colette Wellman Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:53:56 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3649 Dear Melissa, This makes me so sad. I have been waiting patiently for quite some time (ever since the last two books came out) to find out what happens next. Did Grisie name her baby girl Cora after all? I, too, am proud of you for standing up for your principles but am sad for all of us, your devoted readers, that we will never know the rest of the stories. What happened to Martha's parents and siblings? Will we ever know? I think that your publisher has been incredibly foolish. Why on earth would they think that they must abridge your wonderful novels? There are new children the right age for the unabridged versions every day, after all. Ah, well, we see what happens when the ones making the decisions are not connected completely to reality, I guess. Anyway, congratulations to you for standing by your beliefs and doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. The best of luck to you, and we, the ones who support you, will always be grateful for what you have given us. Most Sincerely, Colette Wellman Dear Melissa,

This makes me so sad. I have been waiting patiently for quite some time (ever since the last two books came out) to find out what happens next. Did Grisie name her baby girl Cora after all? I, too, am proud of you for standing up for your principles but am sad for all of us, your devoted readers, that we will never know the rest of the stories. What happened to Martha’s parents and siblings? Will we ever know? I think that your publisher has been incredibly foolish. Why on earth would they think that they must abridge your wonderful novels? There are new children the right age for the unabridged versions every day, after all. Ah, well, we see what happens when the ones making the decisions are not connected completely to reality, I guess. Anyway, congratulations to you for standing by your beliefs and doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. The best of luck to you, and we, the ones who support you, will always be grateful for what you have given us.

Most Sincerely,
Colette Wellman

]]> By: Nancy Paulsen http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3648 Nancy Paulsen Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:30:06 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/02/10/you-guys-are-great/#comment-3648 Dear Melissa, I understand (with sorrow) your decision and completely respect your artistic integrity. However, if you should ever decide to write Martha and Charlotte's stories for adult readers, please, oh please remember us. I have only boys, and right now my middle son is still the age to accept "girl" stories, but how I would dearly love to have a book at an adult level that would speak to the mother I am and someday (long time off, I sure hope) as the grandmother I will be. Warmly, Nancy Paulsen Dear Melissa,

I understand (with sorrow) your decision and completely respect your artistic integrity. However, if you should ever decide to write Martha and Charlotte’s stories for adult readers, please, oh please remember us. I have only boys, and right now my middle son is still the age to accept “girl” stories, but how I would dearly love to have a book at an adult level that would speak to the mother I am and someday (long time off, I sure hope) as the grandmother I will be.

Warmly,
Nancy Paulsen

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