HOLY CRAP MY FAVORITE AUTHOR JUST WROTE TO ME

HOLY CRAP MY FAVORITE AUTHOR JUST WROTE TO ME!!!!

I cannot even express how excited I am! My faaaaaaaaaavorite author ever is a man named Hart D. Fisher. He CHANGED my life. When I was..... maybe about 14, I picked up his book 'Poems for the Dead'. I originally intended to give it to my boyfriend at the time for Christmas but I bought it a few months in advance and ended up forgetting I ever bought it. (I gave him a replica sword and a book about witch hunting in Europe instead, if you're wondering.) I found 'Poems for the Dead' still in its plastic wrapping, smelling of Hot Topic, buried in a pile of semi-clean laundry and thought 'eh, I need something to read...'

It changed my life. My actual, entire life. If you look on the networking website I won't mention, under my heroes, he is the first one mentioned. I stayed up all night and read this book then I read it again then I wrote down one of his poems in my math notebook (which I still ahve to this day and is my prized possession) then I went INSANE. Honest to god insane. I started writing poem after poem after poem after poem after poem after poem after poem after poem... I didn't stop. For years. YEARS. The word vomit... the notebooks and notebooks I filled with twisted words and the emotions that ruled me as a child.

I cannot even explain it. But this man changed my life. Changed it. Poems for the Dead and Still Dead ruled my life and my pen for over a decade. When Poems for the Dead went out of print and I lost my copy, my ex boyfriend crawled every bookstore and website he could find until he finally turned up a battered copy in a used bookstore in Holland. He gave me the best present I have ever recieved - that copy of Poems for the Dead, Still Dead (which I didn't know existed), and a signed copy of Jeffrey Dahmer vs Jesus Christ printed with Hart's blood. It was the most thoughtful present I have ever recieved. It showed how well he knew me. (I gave him signed Pantera CDs and a comic book on the career of Pantera.)

Opening up my inbox, I was like "oh god, another random email..." Emails from random guys are usually "ur so hot i want ur butthole" or "check out my crappy band." When I got to the end and saw "Hart D. Fisher", I started screaming. I got out my notebook and reread that poem I copied down. It's called 'Candyland' and its in Poems for the Dead.

I'm just... I dunno. Shocked. Stoked. Speechless. He's my actual, actual hero and changed the entire course of my life. That feels pretty fucking cool.

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Now I need to shower because I'm way late.

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Comments (18)

	zomgkayla: 06/27/2007 8:42 PM I'm happy for you.:]
	imsolastsummer: 06/27/2007 8:44 PM Yeah, he's an amazing writer! My dad gave me that book for christmas MANY years back, and I'm pretty sure it's the gift I've been most thankful for.
	seeingisbelieving: 06/27/2007 8:56 PM Awesome
	tourt: 06/27/2007 10:14 PM I want to read it now.
	csndra: 06/27/2007 10:19 PM oh shuga shuga! your having a good day HUH.
	georgiadeath: 06/27/2007 11:23 PM Ohhh wow, thats so fucking cool! Lucky you!
	hellraiser01: 06/28/2007 1:40 AM wow. that is so awsome! so what did he say?
	themisse: 06/28/2007 2:27 AM hellraiser01 said: wow. that is so awsome! so what did he say? He replied to a bulletin about the police officers beating skateboarders that I posted... I didn't even know he was on my FList... and then he checked out the site and liked it. So with any luck, I'll be able to interview him and I'll then be able to say I have interviewed my favorite band and my favorite author because of the site. I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooo stoked. Everyone should read as many of his books as possible. I cannot even explain how amazing he is.
	blxsh: 06/28/2007 6:08 AM That's so awesome!
	AshDMuse: 06/28/2007 8:05 AM That has got to be the coolest thing I have heard in a while. I often email writers I like just to basically let them know they are loved. But, to get one form an author is incredible. Every now and then they write back. I know how you feel. That is just really really cool. I'd print the email and laminate it.
	vamatelf: 06/28/2007 2:21 PM I would give my left arm just for an e-mail from my favorite author. You are one fucking lucky person E. Do you know how he found out about you, 'eh?
	malindaaa: 06/29/2007 12:12 AM themisse said: hellraiser01 said:wow. that is so awsome! so what did he say?He replied to a bulletin about the police officers beating skateboarders that I posted... I didn't even know he was on my FList... and then he checked out the site and liked it. So with any luck, I'll be able to interview him and I'll then be able to say I have interviewed my favorite band and my favorite author because of the site. I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooo stoked. Everyone should read as many of his books as possible. I cannot even explain how amazing he is. I am soOOO happy for you :D i bet your stoked
	Karlita Jones!: 06/29/2007 10:24 PM awww miss e, im so happy for you!!!! Its the best feeling in the world, to be able to talk to, write to, or even see your favorite person,band,writer,author..etc in the world! Hopefully you will be able to interview him! Im sure that would mean the world to you!! :) Good Luck!!!!
	chmarlyblob: 07/01/2007 12:47 PM themisse said: hellraiser01 said:wow. that is so awsome! so what did he say?He replied to a bulletin about the police officers beating skateboarders that I posted... I didn't even know he was on my FList... and then he checked out the site and liked it. So with any luck, I'll be able to interview him and I'll then be able to say I have interviewed my favorite band and my favorite author because of the site. I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooo stoked. Everyone should read as many of his books as possible. I cannot even explain how amazing he is. Oh wow. I feel so happy for you! :D I hoep you get to interview him.
	vampiresx3: 07/01/2007 3:21 PM I'm happy for you. :)
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