The Reader is Always Right

I’m starting to hear back from my second round of “beta readers” for 17 Weddings — people who have volunteered to read an unedited manuscript and provide feedback about my story. I am infinitely appreciative of their time and effort — and their honesty.

While talking to another author recently, I said that “every reader is right” — words that stemmed from a quote I read at a library during my BC Book Tour last summer:

“No two persons ever read the same book.”  – Edmund Wilson

That quote had st...