The Reader/Author Connection

As i sit here after a few days as a guest author at the Texas Word Wrangler Festival, I reflect back to all of the authors out there, tapping away at keyboards-creating their own little worlds in the hope that a few other people are ready and willing to pick up those pages, those characters on a screen- and absorb them, read their way into that special world the author has created.
Sometimes I wish i weren't an author and a professional artist, not because i don't love it, i do, but because i could have TONS of free time reading MORE of the MANY books out there! There are so many books and not hardly enough time to explore all of them. Reading books takes a time commitment that many people in our hectic world just DO NOT Have.
When someone takes the time to READ one of my books..I am thankful and happy, appreciative and feel blessed, I know i gave to them special feelings and emotions through my pages that they will remember.
The same whem I sell a painting-i feel amazed that someone loves that image as much as I did to create it. We have both shared and are connected forever through my painting.
Nest month I hope all my readers come together to help me by grabbing their 1st copy of MONTANA MIST, my new novel.