I get heaps of negative reviews for my fiction, some of it reasonable and salutary. Am I discouraged? Sure, sometimes, though much less by the remarks than by my own self-criticism. But then I get an email from a blind girl asking permission to translate Mortal Ghost into her mother tongue, Swedish, because the novel means so much to her: that's making it big in publishing - self or otherwise - in my book!
(Eventually there'll be a link to her project at my website.)
I get heaps of negative reviews for my fiction, some of it reasonable and salutary. Am I discouraged? Sure, sometimes, though much less by the remarks than by my own self-criticism. But then I get an email from a blind girl asking permission to translate Mortal Ghost into her mother tongue, Swedish, because the novel means so much to her: that's making it big in publishing - self or otherwise - in my book!
ReplyDelete(Eventually there'll be a link to her project at my website.)