Paradigm Shift

A strange thing happened last week; I read one of my own books. This was because I had brazenly put The Magic Cloak (Book I of The Talisman Series) forward to my Queen’s Head Book Club as their September read. To my surprise, they agreed. To my further surprise, I realized I would need to re-read it because I had written it so long ago that I was a little hazy on what happened in it. And as a final, totally shocking surprise, I actually liked it.

Writers do not generally enjoy reading their o...