Subscribe by email:Every Saturday I share some questions I receive from readers, bloggers and writers. Today’s question is:
What is your fondest memory about being a published writer?
My fondest memory is the first time a reader gave me feedback on my work. The reader waited in line at a book signing to tell me how much she enjoyed my books. She spoke so eloquently about how much pleasure my stories brought her.
I wish I could say that I was eloquent in response, but I wasn’t prepared for something like this. Instead my jaw dropped, I blushed bright red, and my throat kind of made this strangling, gurgling sound. Despite all that, it was my fondest memory because I know how the reader felt. Everything she said was what I had experienced when I read my first romance. At that moment (after I stopped geeking) I felt like I came full circle.
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So great to get positive feedback for something you put your heart and time into!
… I tend to bumble my words whenever I try to speak to someone new… I was a babbling mess this past Summer when I went to my first readers convention… met face to face with some authors… which was truly a great experience… but as soon as they would ask me something… I was a mess. The experience as a whole was amazing… so it is a good memory for me!
Always remember that those authors are just as nervous and excited as you are!
I can understand where you are coming from. The same thing would have happened to me. I am not good with the public.
I am not good in public at all! Whenever I get nervous all those childhood years of speech therapy go out the window.
Haven’t been to any author signings but did receive a lovely response from an author I emailed.
I wish there was email when I first started reading romance. I would have loved contacting an author after reading one of their books.
What a lovely memory.