Great Authors

Every great author was in the beginning an unknown, improbable writer offering a high-risk factor to a reader’s limited reading time and book-purchase-money, just one more face among the masses, until that one novel raised him or her above the teeming competition.

“Could I be,” I quietly ask myself in the silence of my living room as I stare at my book on Amazon, “just one such author, destined for greatness? Could it only be that I am yet to be discovered?”

I sigh, then click into Goodreads. My book flashes on the screen in an instant. Its title, ‘Intrinsic Encounters,’ quickly fills my mind’s eye. I remain wordless, bereft of consolation, eyes darting to and fro while I search for clues.

Just then, my gaze falls on the book’s glowing reviews at the bottom of the online page. Five stars out of five stars, sweet words of heartfelt praise, thumbs up, hugs, and endless kisses. I am humbled! I am empowered! I am intensely hopeful.

There are many good books out there, that’s for sure. Mine, it would seem, is definitely one among them.

One never knows a good thing till one give it a try, tastes it, appreciates its flavor, learns its strong points and feels its driving force powerfully pump blood in one’s own self.

“Intrinsic Encounters is a novel of great mastery and original creativity. It will not wheez tiredly into the night. It will not sink to bottom of the heap. This novel is destined to celebrate life with a bang of brilliant colors, an array of endless fireworks, for much of the day for years to come, and for all the world to enjoy.”

K. M. Oddeck