Well, I like Annie Dillard's writing, and I like your writing, but I like them in different ways and for different purposes. She has some very thought-provoking essays about nature, and religion, and the spiritual life. The sort of thing where one reads a paragraph or two and then thinks about it. The sort of thing that I suppose it makes sense for one to refine over time. She doesn't have *story* that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and drags you through the pages to see what happens next. I occasionally run into fiction that has been substantially reworked and rereleased, but I can only think of a handful of examples in 40-some years of reading genre fiction. In general it seems like in that neighborhood both the author and the readers would prefer the effort went toward new! and shiny! rather than loving polishing of the existing.