here endeth the lesson.

[lagilman]

So this morning, I was confronted with a review of FLESH AND FIRE that read, in part: "It’s really gratifying to watch (Jerzy) change and grow as the novel progresses; he is the same person, yet completely different, when Flesh and Fire ends, and I loved how well-crafted he was....I initially wanted to read Flesh and Fire because it is a fantasy novel centered around wine, and I thought it sounded like fun. What I got was so much more than that, though."

This evening? Another review of that selfsame book that said it was "a tedious, dull and slow read. A really disappointing, underwhelming story, thin characters and no sense of resolution do not a novel make."

Thereby proving that you can noway, nohow, please all the people all the time. Write what makes you happy.