#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 8 Nbr 25 — Do you add a message from the author to your work?
When I serialize online chapters, I sometimes include author notes. I usually do it encourage comments and to prevent down votes; it's kinda advertising the way jacket blurbs are, and helps maintain the publishing microcosm. I recently published a chapter with the content of a subsequent chapter, which incidentally spoiled a cliffhanger, so I added an author note to apologize to the few that had quickly read the chapter before I repaired it—including the three who up voted during the interval!
I don't think I'd add author notes to a book, unless there were things like research or pertinent history I thought might enhance my readers' understanding of my book's message beyond the story. Otherwise, a work ought stand for itself.
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