The Best Thing ever for a Writer: When a Reader Shares Passages She Loved from your Book with You

Jumping Over Shadows in Karlsruhe (photo by Barbara Jester)

As a writer, there is nothing I like more than connecting with a reader. So I was thrilled when Ellen Amarnek tagged me in the following post:

She had photographed a passage she particularly liked from my article “A Day on a Bench in Paris” in the Bella Grace Issue 19. Then she took the trouble to look me up and created this Instagram post to connect with me. That, in and of itself, is already amazing.

She went to that extra troubl...