When Nice Things Happen For A Book I’ve Loved Reading

As an author, I know what a wonderfully exciting moment it is when when nice things happen for a book.

It’s pretty durned exciting, too, when a book I’ve loved reading wins an award. It’s nice, you know, to discover  that others out there have enjoyed a book as much as I did myself. But as an author, I also know what it will mean to the writer, probably after she has spent years on the solitary process of researching and writing the book, then getting it to the world.

So I was over the moon w...