Comments on: Why it Took 30 Years to Become a Successful Author https://glendalarke.com/2023/01/why-it-took-30-years-to-become-a-successful-author/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:36:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2023/01/why-it-took-30-years-to-become-a-successful-author/#comment-43253 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:36:27 +0000 https://glendalarke.com/?p=10065#comment-43253 In reply to Susan.

Thank you, Susan! You have made my day… 🙂
“The Tangled Lands”, published in 2023, is a stand alone, and alas, it is my last. I am now in my 80s, and find–somewhat to my surprise, that I don’t have another book in me. I have truly retired. I do hope that others like you will discover the books and they will continue to intrigue or delight readers. Happily they are all still available.

]]> By: Susan https://glendalarke.com/2023/01/why-it-took-30-years-to-become-a-successful-author/#comment-43252 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:12:19 +0000 https://glendalarke.com/?p=10065#comment-43252 Wow, what an amazing rollercoaster. I hope you don’t mind me sharing my own Glenda Larke history? Around 15 years ago the lady who cleaned my house donated some unwanted books onto my shelves. One of them was “The Aware” which I’d never heard of. I read it, loved it, and of course had to buy the other two books. I enjoyed the series enough to go and find out more about Glenda Larke and make a list of all her books. I read “Havenstar” which I greatly enjoyed. I read “The Mirage Makers” which I liked, but not as much as “Isles of Glory” (but not because the main character wasn’t a man lol). And then I read and loved “The Last Stormlord”. And then today on my lunch break I read just the first two chapters of “Stormlord Rising” and I’m already hooked. I can see this week being a few nights of just one more chapter and I know I said I’d fold the washing, but seriously, I HAVE to know what happens! But of course, it’s more than that. The writing is always so gripping and welcoming that I can’t help but feel all the feelings; the good and the bad. Mostly I feel like I left fantasy novels back in my teens and twenties, but when they’re put together this well, how could you not love them.

I will of course eventually get to the last books on the Glenda Larke list. I’m more than a little sad to have found this website today and learnt that the last book on the list will actually be the last book. But I’ll always be grateful to that cleaner whose name I don’t remember who donated her old books to me that started this joyful adventure. And big thanks to you for persevering with the ups and downs of the publishing journey. The world is a better place for having your writing in it <3

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