EEEEE-MAIL

EEEEE-MAIL (1999) Post 360

EEEEE-Mail! is one of those books with a title I can never quite remember. First... how many Es? Then, which letters are capitalised? Then, does it or does it not have an exclamation mark? And... which name was I using at that point? Okay then. The picture tells a thousand words. Sort of. I remember the story itself, easily enough. Like Chat, which appeared in the blog back in May, this story shows its age, and reflects the internet as it was back then. Kathleen O'Grady lives with her dad, who is a very private person. He doesn't like it at all when Kathleen starts using chat rooms on the computer. She is NEVER to reveal her name, location etc to anyone she chats with, and NEVER to accept anything offered. Kathleen agrees, and sadly turns down gifts she would love to have, but disaster happens anyway, when someone finds out who and where she is. How? Well, she had to register with the chat room, right? And the danger comes not from the legitimate chatters, but from the host itself - the scourge of the House of O'Grady, the hereditary banshee. Woe to the House of O'Grady! Woe to its flame-haired heir! That's Kathleen, and Kathleen is equal to any cyber-spook. She's going to pull the plug on this scourge and get back to - chatting. Of course... it's not that simple.

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The goal for 2017 is to write a post a day profiling the background behind one of my books; how it came to be written, what it's about, and any things of note that happened along the way. If you're an author, an aspiring author, a reader or just someone who enjoys windows into worlds, you might find this fun. The books are not in any special order, but will be assigned approximate dates, and pictures, where they exist.