Finally got a response from my favorite author....
Late July or early August I sent a message through the contact form on my favorite author's new website. He's basically been gone from the internet for 10 years.
Sent him a fairly long message (potentially the length of this post, but maybe shorter) about how much I've enjoyed his books, been reading him for almost 20 years, excited a new book is coming out, etc.
Kind of lost hope I'd hear back from him, and the other day I received this email. A little annoyed that he called me Jeff (not my name). Then saw the original message he was responding to was an email sent to him on August 15 from some dude named Jeff.
So, I replied to tell him that he somehow responded to the wrong person (also CCed Jeff).
Still no response to my original message, or this one.