Reading Reviews

Reading reviews

As a younger, greenstick author, I got caught up in reading reviews of my book all the time. Authorship is nerve-racking, as we launch our work in the public sphere and hope it floats. As part of that process, we wait and watch, notice what happens, and naturally hope that our work fares well. But now, I see, I was also waiting for the punishing crit, which has – thankfully – not materialised. If it had, it would have demolished me inside, left me a crumbling, doubting wreck....