Ooh, the producer who is interested in my books just got a little snippy with me in an e-mail. Not a good idea. She'd mentioned another young actress who's currently on some Disney show playing a supporting role - she said she'd thought of a way to maybe spin-off from that show. Now, if the young actress is playing a role wouldn't you logically assume that to spin-off from that role you'd have to keep the name the same? Certainly, that was my assumption. So, I wrote the producer back and said that whatever ideas she had about such things were fine, but one of the few things that I would not allow was the changing of the character's name. She wrote back, snippily, and said of course she's very protective of the character (!) and would never allow such a thing and why would I write such an e-mail. I wrote back and said that her words had led me to respond, nicely, in the way I responded. I told her that is why I loathe e-mails because people just read into them things that are simply not there. I concluded with a smiley face, something I'd also included in the original e-mail response. I then explained what a smiley face is. But snippiness just raises all sorts of red flags and if anything like that occurs again, then she'll have to just deal with my agent on everything. And she's going to have to do that anyway, before she even thinks about pitching this anywhere.
