![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are always somewhat on the fringe of society, your lovable outcasts and weirdos, and if I’ve done my job, you keep reading because you find the characters delightful and you want to know what happens to them and see them find a place in the world. ![]() The fantasy backdrop is more in the “courtly politics” vein rather than physical action, although there is a little of that. My brand is: cozy romantic fantasy about a couple in healthy relationship with lots of details about food, clothes, and domestic life, and bits of humor. It took me all those years for the fan mail to trickle in before it finally dawned on me that it is the most beloved of all my books, as far as I can tell. However, as the years have gone by, I’ve gotten many fan letters for that book from both kids and adult women who tell me it’s one of their favorite books and they’ve read it many times. Its review average on Amazon and Goodreads was never great, which initially made me feel like there was no place in the world for what I most love to write. My second novel, Between the Sea and Sky (Bloomsbury, 2001), is my favorite of my published books. One thing it has taken me a while to realize is that just because you don’t write the most popular thing and you get some bad reviews because of it, doesn’t mean you need to change anything. I’ve moved into indie publishing lately, where it is entirely my choice which books I release into the world. ![]()
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