My mom and my older sister love Monorama. Of course they also loved Cloak of Shrouded Men. My mom has also loved the other manuscripts I've sent along her way. She's my constant reader (apologies, Mr. King). My sister, meanwhile, didn't like Finnegan, never finished it, apparently, but now she's saying the problem was trying to read it on a computer. Now she's going to transfer it into a file fit for her Nook, and give it another go.
(My oldest brother has had my first three books/manuscripts for a good long while now, since last spring I believe, and has made no progress at all, even though he's got them on his Kindle. I think it's the formatting that's given him a problem, and I'm not sure he's bothered figuring that out.)
Anyway, the main point is, I've got two readers who love it. They got paperback copies. I think I'll concentrate on this paragraph when I think about the book's reception...
It's nice that your family actually reads your books. I'd have to truss my family up like "A Clockwork Orange" to get them to read anything. Or maybe I just need to write crappy romances and cat-themed cozy mysteries.
ReplyDeleteThey provide feedback whether it's positive or not, so that's a good thing. I do like it when they say how much they love it, though...
DeleteAwesome feedback Tony. A review is a review. If they're honest that's all that matters.
ReplyDeleteI was especially pleased that my sister liked it, because as I said, she wasn't so positive with the second manuscript she read from me, and that was a hard thing to process, even though I know that story is probably a little hard to digest, just because of the way it's written. It's the whole reason why I wrote a completely different kind of manuscript last year.
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