There has been so much discussion lately about
readers trashing writers that I wanted to take today to jump in and say how
much I appreciate my readers. Without you, I would still be writing, but there
would be no one who relates to my point of view. No one who enjoyed my
characters and my story. I need you.
Let’s face it, a writer can’t help but put a big
chunk of herself in a novel. I have received some of the nicest reviews and
yes, they affect me emotionally. I’ve had readers make me feel wonderful with tears
of joy and occasionally comments that left me frustrated.
As a writer, I want to spend my time focusing on the
next story, not on whether or not the book was formatted correctly or even
whether or not all the commas are in the right spots. (I hate commas, I truly
do.) I’m interested in getting the movie that is playing in my head down on the
page. I pay people to format the book correctly, and I pay a free-lance editor
to make certain all those pesky commas land in the right spot.
When Amazon sends me a notice saying someone said
there is an error on page 1374, I take it seriously. I make the changes and
upload the book again. But there is a small part of me that wonders…did you do
this when it was a New York Publisher?
