Libby - this isn't a goodbye because you are featured through Sunday, but I wasn't sure if you were going to be checking in over the weekend. It's entirely up to you.
Tomorrow is my RWA chapter meeting, followed by a writer's workshop, followed by a party to celebrate some friends getting agents and/or sales, so I'm not likely to be around until tomorrow evening.
This thread is "yours" now, so I hope you'll come back whenever you have news - a new release, a book trailer, a new cover, a B&N book signing, a guest blog, or anything you'd like to share with us.
The interesting here is that while the number of people posting comments isn't especially high (mainly due to our glitchy sign in process), the view count goes up and up long after your visit. Just search your name to find this thread; posting a new comment will move it to the front of the board. The view count may be in the hundreds now (check the first post on the thread), but you'll be surprised how often this thread will continue to be viewed in the future.
I'll say thank you now in case I miss you tomorrow - I've really enjoyed your visit, and I think you've got a LOT of new readers after this. I hope I'll get to meet you in real life one of these days.
I won't be posting next week's featured author thread until Sunday evening, so please stay and chat as long as you want!
becke_davis wrote:
LibbyfhLH wrote:It never fails to surprise me how eclectic our tastes are. There's an author who write cozy-ish novels (I will not name her) who has won major awards and is beloved by most mystery readers, including, I imagine, a lot of the readers in this group. I have literally started her first book FOUR times and I can't get past page 70.
There are some authors I can't read, either because their voice grates on me or because they write in dialect -- I even had trouble with that in To Kill a Mockingbird. I like listening to different accents, but I don't like to READ them. I'd rather leave that to my imagination. But there are authors who write in dialect whose books are so gripping I barely notice I'm reading dialect.
(laughing) You know that was one of the "have to read due to school" books I really enjoyed. But then well that particular dialect is common to my ears. Which brings me to this question Becke, you've read
In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux Series #6) this one? Man uses accents thick enough to spread on toast. Which camp would you put him in?
I'm ok with strange accents, so long as I can fall into the flow of the dialog.
TiggerBear wrote:
becke_davis wrote:
LibbyfhLH wrote:
It never fails to surprise me how eclectic our tastes are. There's an author who write cozy-ish novels (I will not name her) who has won major awards and is beloved by most mystery readers, including, I imagine, a lot of the readers in this group. I have literally started her first book FOUR times and I can't get past page 70.
There are some authors I can't read, either because their voice grates on me or because they write in dialect -- I even had trouble with that in To Kill a Mockingbird. I like listening to different accents, but I don't like to READ them. I'd rather leave that to my imagination. But there are authors who write in dialect whose books are so gripping I barely notice I'm reading dialect.
(laughing) You know that was one of the "have to read due to school" books I really enjoyed. But then well that particular dialect is common to my ears. Which brings me to this question Becke, you've read
In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead (Dave Robicheaux Series #6) this one? Man uses accents thick enough to spread on toast. Which camp would you put him in?
I'm ok with strange accents, so long as I can fall into the flow of the dialog.
Well, I guess his books are an exception, because I love the way he writes!
