susanstinson

Oh, please. I love praise, and love so much that my little known books have really mattered to some of the people who do know about them -- to you, for example. It's a gift -- a beautiful gift that makes me giggle and also a responsibility that I try to take both lightly and seriously in deliciously excruciating balance to be told that. To be honest, my challenge with praise and doing the work necessary to help people find out about the new book is how to harness the energy it gives me in a way that helps me move forward with new work, taking new risks without either getting stuck in the past or starting to play for praise (to write for praise) -- instead of for truth and beauty, fear and delight and going all of the deep places that scare me the most.