The kind of Email that makes a new author smile

We received this email from William Mastrangeli the other day. This is what new authors live for.

“I’d like to start off by saying, I read both the Lens and the Looker and The Bronze and the Brimstone in 2 or 3 days, and I loved them. I rank your books with The Hunger Games and Eragon, both of which I still have not read the sequels to, and I am anxiously waiting for the third book in the Verona series. I want to be an author when I am older and many of my books would probolly be Sci-Fi, and I was not planning on time travel, as it did notmake sence but with your books I just may be able to write a time travel book yet.”

LORY’S REPLY:

Thank you, William. It does my heart good for someone to compare my books to The Hunger Games and Eragon, and to know you read my sequel before theirs. Yahoo! And I’m glad you would like to be an author.

As for Time Travel not making sense. You are right. It absolutely doesn’t. The art of writing these things is then to make the story and characters compelling enough that the reader is willing to suspend their disbelief. However, time travel as a writing device allows me to talk about the important themes of our time and into the future, while also entertaining.

Again, thanks for your kind words and good reading.

Cheers
Lory