Friday confession

Okay so I have a confession to make. And I feel pretty silly saying it's a confession, like it's some tawdry secret I should be whispering or something, but I feel like I'm breaking some kind of unwritten author's code by saying what I'm about to say.

I love my books.

Okay. There. I said it!

It's really interesting because I never see authors expressing pride in their work. I'm not saying they don't. I'm just saying I don't see it. In fact I see the opposite. I see a lot of "this is a piece of crap." Or "I NEVER read my book ever ever ever again after final galleys." or "I never want to see this again. EVER EVER EVER"

I'm not ragging on these authors whatsoever. This is a stressful enough business without me giving people grief or telling them how they should or shouldn't act (okay so that's a whole other topic I'll never get into ;) I'm merely saying that the mindset seems to be it's not okay to love your book. Or at least ADMIT to liking your own book publicly. (I imagine that's more the case than really not loving your book)

But I'll say it again. I love my stories. It wouldn't make sense if I didn't! If I didn't love what I wrote, I wouldn't sell them so that other people could read them. I simply couldn't write a story that I didn't love and have an emotional investment in.

Here's another deep dark secret for you. I reread my books from time to time. To me, there's nothing quite like reading a finished book. It feels completely different than reading a word file a million times and then reading a PDF galley. I like holding it in my hands and revisiting characters that I put my heart and soul into. I mean hell, I lived with them while writing them. It's not like I can just turn off my emotions for them.

Yesterday I was in a bit of a funk so I picked up my first Desire trilogy and read all three books. Know what? I love those stories! :) Book two, The Tycoon's Rebel Bride, is still my favorite, but I love all three.

There you have it. My deep, dark, shameful secret. *snort*

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