I don't have time for this, but it seems to have time for me....

Still head-foggy, still throat-scratchy, despite 8-ish hours of sleep. Meh. Freelancers get no sick days, tho... and so work starts soon's caffeine kicks in.

[I can't take cold meds during the day. even 'daytime' meds will knock me out.]

However, one of the best ways to comfort a writer with a head cold so bad she's having trouble working, is to say nice things about her work. So this was a nice link to find in my mailbox this morning: http://www.skrishnasbooks.com/2011/12/book-review-flesh-and-fire-laura-anne.html

"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."


*is really rather smugly and unapologetically pleased.* I love it when a reader connects with a story so perfectly, to the point where something they dislike personally, they acknowledge as being the right thing for the story.

here endeth the lesson.

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.