Why you won't hear from me much...

I thought I should take a brief moment here and explain why you might not hear from me as much as you'd expect here at Goodreads.

There are a number of reasons--not the least of which is time. I work 6-7 days a week at a job that requires my attention most of the time. I might snatch the occasional moment to check the tweets or respond to an email, but I don't have a lot of time for thinky thoughts while I'm at work.

When I *do* have time, whatever I happen to be working as the WIP takes precedence. It has to--my joy and delight is telling stories and hoping other people will enjoy them as well. To that effect, I have to concentrate what little free time I have into writing.

I also have mixed feelings about reviewing other people's work. I know how hard it is to raise your 'child' from infancy to school age and send it off on the bus, waving goodbye. You hope you raised it right, you hope it plays well with others and won't get bullied because you *love* it and you want others to love it too.

Problem is, I tend to be fairly critical when reading a book that doesn't engage me--it I like it, then I like it whole-heartedly and forgive many of its flaws. So I wouldn't say I'm the most balanced of reviewers.

To that extent, I've chosen not to review my fellow M/M romance writers for the most part. I'm sure there will be exceptions, when someone's work blows me away and I just have to share the glee, but for the most part, I will read that genre in silence. I use goodreads mostly as a way of tracking the books I want to read, TBH.

Since I already feel divided and subdivided into a thousands silvers of glass on a daily basis, you're not likely to see me post here much or participate in discussions very often.

That doesn't mean that I don't want to hear from you, however! It just means I spend a lot of time skimming other people's posts, planning to make a comment, and then getting totally sidetracked by something else that needs doing right now. Direct contact will usually get a response (though I'm not promising when!)