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Tuesday, 29 August 2006
It is one year today since Hurricane Katrina pushed half the Gulf of Mexico on shore. We at AuthorViews are unable to bring you Unknown Author's video.

Unknown Author couldn't make the New Orleans Bookfair last October because she passed in the flood waters. She couldn't attend the Virginia Festival of the Book, or catch our film crew in Santa Fe this summer, because she got away without doing an interview -- one we can't make up.

"Everyone is talented, original, and has something important to say," says Brenda Ueland, and we agree. Some people never got a chance to say it. That's a shame. Hurricane Katrina took some 1900 souls away from us, and we are smaller for it.

This disaster has inspired us at AuthorViews to up the ante. We filmed for free hoping some day publishers would pay us to do it. Now we refuse to let go. We want to film all authors, everywhere, and we resent losing even one.

Today, as we memorialize those who lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina, we also commit ourselves to try to help every author have their say before something takes them away. We thank you supporting this effort.

STEVE O'KEEFE
President, AuthorViews, Inc.
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