Unintentional Flattery
A female colleague took 'The Trouble with Girls' on holiday with her.
"It's rather salacious," she said. "My partner was not too happy, but it is very engaging. I haven't finished it because I had already started reading Dan Brown's 'Inferno' and kept flitting between the two." Her demeanour as she spoke was apologetic. She presumably thought I'd be disappointed because her attention had not been focussed on my book.
But for an unknown writer to be compared, even mentioned, in relation to such a successful author is heartening. I look at it from a different perspective: her attention had been shared between our books.
Praise indeed.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Trouble-W...
"It's rather salacious," she said. "My partner was not too happy, but it is very engaging. I haven't finished it because I had already started reading Dan Brown's 'Inferno' and kept flitting between the two." Her demeanour as she spoke was apologetic. She presumably thought I'd be disappointed because her attention had not been focussed on my book.
But for an unknown writer to be compared, even mentioned, in relation to such a successful author is heartening. I look at it from a different perspective: her attention had been shared between our books.
Praise indeed.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Trouble-W...
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