1. Can you remember the first half of your life?
2. Can you remember the second half of your life?
3. Can you remember what happened yesterday?
4. Can you remember what happened an hour ago?
5. How many prescription medications are you taking?
6. Do you have anyone in your life who protects and champions your name, legacy, and personal well-being?
7. Do you feel like you receive excellent care and complete respect from your caretakers, physicians, and other hired professionals (like lawyers)?
8. Do you think the discovery of Watchman would have been handled differently if you had been a man or a younger person?
9. Do you feel like your legacy as a great writer has been mass-gang-raped by the sale and marketing of a manuscript you expressly never wanted published?
10. Do you feel like your longtime fans and other intelligent, curious people have stood by and watched a crime be committed in your name, while doing nothing to stop the greedy machine that publishing seems to have become?
I wish you could answer these questions, Harper Lee.
If you could, only then would I consider purchasing your book or any other book from Harper Collins.
In the meantime, I am going to trust my gut feeling of being totally and utterly disgusted by the whole fiasco.
Harper Lee did not lose a fan. HarperCollins did.