Spies Update Their People Very Carefully

I finally sent out my monthly newsletter after a hiatus of six months. Sigh. Where did the time go? I titled the email: Gennita Low's Bi-Annual Monthly Newsletter, LOL. It has been, shall we say, a little hectic at the Low household?

How much information does an author share with her readers, anyway? Do I include news of my poor dog, Magic, who has gone blind from diabetes? Do I relate how she runs at full speed still and crashes into fences, walls, planters, rocks, etc., and doesn't seem to realize she can't see? Or do I just give a dry update about the upcoming releases and signings?

When I used to write certain reports, I had to choose what information to leave out. Certain facts weren't considered "usable" facts. And I wasn't allowed to give personal conclusions. In order to get a certain message across, I sometimes had to phrase certain facts in such a way that an analytic reader would be able to discern the conclusion themselves.

For example:
"With the use of ultrasound, there is a current trend to abort fetuses in China to uphold the one-child policy."
is very different when written:
"With the use of ultrasound, there is now a current trend among Chinese parents-to-be to abort female fetuses as a way to get around the one-child policy."

An good analyst crunching numbers for future cultural and policy trends for the next 10-20 years would be able to make certain conclusions to which the second statement would lead. I didn't know, at that time, that this was me practicing how to add subtext in plotting ;-).

So the newsletter is out, but now the problem is--after half a year, how many of these email addys in my list is still working? Some people change email addys like shoes. I, on the other hand, just keep collecting them!

I should always remember the spy creed: always keep your sources current! But then there is the Ranger Buddy Roofing Creed: just keep roofing; they'll find you if you're good. He should know; the man hadn't needed to advertise in the thirty some years he's been at this and we've never run out of jobs. So what's the subtext here?!

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