Yesterday I received a review on The Changed from Foreward Clarion. For those who haven’t heard of them Foreword Clarion is a book review publication, like Kirkus or Publisher’s Weekly. The purpose of their publication is to provide critical feedback on available titles for the good people who purchase books for libraries and the few surviving bookstores. These publications aren’t known for pulling punches or treating authors with kid gloves. Their reviewers provide an unbiased opinion, which is exactly why purchasers care what they have to say.
I’m not one of those writers that labors under the impression that every sentence I type is pure gold. Quite the opposite, in fact. I work very hard to improve with every story I write. To me, one of the greatest gifts a storyteller can give someone is a sense of wonder, and the feeling that they’ve been taken to a new world — even if it’s just for a couple hundred pages. My writing process is a series of emotional highs and lows, writing, re-writing, re-writing, more writing, then followed by re-writing. It’s hard to leave the baggage of all that work behind when you submit something that has been such a large part of your life for review to a complete stranger. When I put my work out there like that, I can only hope that the reader will care about my story as much as I did.
So, needless to say, I was ecstatic, surprised, and maybe a little shocked when they rated The Changed five out of five stars, and wrote a glowing review about my novel.
Just wanted to share, because this really made my week.
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