I’d like to thank the men and women who put words into
stories that take me away. I’ve been
transported to faraway lands, times, and realities. You've taken time from your lives to help
others learn and escape. You write
through personal tragedy, life altering changes, through illness and
unemployment and still you produce. Many
of you have day jobs where like most of us the pressures and hats you are asked
to wear increase almost daily. Like the
rest of us you have families and obligations yet you find the time to sit down
and write. You look at the paper (or
computer screen) and create worlds, lives and realities. I envy you that skill and dedication. Through social media, blogs, and authors web
pages I’ve learned a little of what it takes to do what you do and I am
astounded at the amount of effort that is put into making your words available.
Self-publication is a double edged sword.
It has made more books available but the screening process is
harder. Apparently not everybody has
access to a good editor. One of the
upsides of self-pubbing is that some of my new favorite authors are putting
their backlist out in eBook form. I just
want you to know that there are readers like me out there that appreciate every
hour of sleep you give up to give us our bit of mystery, romance, escape or
whatever. Thank you for the hours and
hours of enjoyment you bring to my life.
Please keep doing what you do so well and I will keep budgeting for more
books.
Sincerely,
Donna Antonio
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