There are already some articles and blogs, as well as some backlash about the book. I’ve seen one title “Capitalizing on Tragedy?”, that hurts a little.
It needs to be made clear that we did not seek out a deal to publish a book we were writing- Plume Publishing came to us. Also, it needs to be clear that this is not easy for us in the least. We are trying to retell a story that is one of the worst in American History.
Yesterday Roland and I spoke to a professor that lost three students in his classes, as well as a neighbor. All three of us got choked up on more than one occasion.
We are human, we are Hokies, we are students, and we are trying to deal with our grief while speaking to others about theirs and speaking about those that we all lost.
If you think we are capitalizing on anything, then you don’t understand us as much as you think you do.
Granted the media and the public are allowed to express their own opinions, but so are we. In taking on this project we knew there would be some backlash. But our thought pattern is that we believe this book will do some good for some Hokies and others in the Tech Community, and hopefully globally…and if it does that, then it is worth it.
We would not take on such a project if we were not sincere and had our community in our best interest.
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