At the same time, what one reads in a work is inevitably influenced by personal experiences. For example, I think that the ecological issues in your Isles of Glory series (most strongly in Gilfeather) struck me so strongly because I had recently read Jared Diamond’s book Collapse and had his observations on fragile upland ecologies close to the forefront of my mind.

On the topic you raised in my blog today/yesterday (what signifiers of time are appropriate when two participants in a conversation are on opposite sides of the globe?) concerning NA publication of your Mirage Makers series, it may well be that I saw something about the UK versions – in Canada, we often get UK publications here if there’s no North American release by a US publisher. Buying books can get a little strange here, as can watching movies, due to the strange ways in which media companies sometimes assume Canada is a part of the US, sometimes recognise it as a country of its own, and sometimes see it as still in some way a part of Great Britain.

It is even more special when you realise that a reader is treading the same path you did as you write the book.

(Conversely, I am occasionally taken aback when I find a reader who read a totally different book to the one I wrote! Lol…)

I’m glad to have found your blog and judging from your writing, I can tell you are indeed a natural born writer. 🙂

Count me as a new fan of your blog.

Especially when it happens with someone like Glenda. Who understands story, loves language, and isn’t afraid to show either when it comes to writing fabulous fiction.

Especially when it happens with someone like Glenda. Who understands story, loves language, and isn’t afraid to show either when it comes to writing fabulous fiction.

I’m the author of the Bibliogramma posts on LJ, and the making-of-weekends has been mutual. The relationship between artist and audience is still, even in these days of fan conventions and the Internet, largely a one-way flow, and for me at least it’s difficult to know how to express appreciation as audience to an artist without being intrusive.

I’m glad I had the opportunity to give you the pleasure of knowing how greatly you are appreciated for your art in return for the pleasure I’ve had in being a part of your audience.