Your voices have helped more people than you know. I just wanted to thank you for all the effort and creativity and passion you’ve brought to your work over the years, and how you’ve continued to share it and push on despite whatever criticisms you received. It’s kind of awkward for me to post this, but I’m in a much better place now, and looking back I genuinely think that my love for your writing played a big part in saving my life. And finally getting to read it gave me a little bit of joy when I hadn’t felt anything but misery in a very long time. I would think “I should hold out until it’s published” and I managed to. In particular, I had been a huge fan of the Kate Daniels series for almost a decade, and I really wanted to read Magic Triumphs and see how it ended. For a long time after that I was suicidally depressed, and it was only the little things in life that kept me going. In 2017, half of my immediate family died within months of each other. He gave me permission to share it on the blog. Not too long ago he sent us this lovely art he commissioned from Martina Scafa, which depicts a scene from Blood Heir. No matter how down we would get, reading Mihir’s review – even when it was critical – always made you feel like your work was worthy and special. He probably doesn’t know it but he played a large part in contributing to the series. Mihir championed our books for over a decade. You can read Mihir’s biography at this link. But then slowly the readership grew, and one of the very first fantasy reviewers who supported us was Mihir Wanchoo of Fantasy Book Critic. The very first professional review we ever saw actually said that we already had a Jim Butcher and the world didn’t need a female knock-off. When Kate Daniels just came out, it wasn’t well received by critics in the fantasy genre. At times that special connection gets buried under the minutia of admin tasks, fatigue, and negative experiences, but then something happens to remind us that reading is an interactive sport. As authors, we are very grateful for the opportunity to touch people’s lives through our writing. As the story continues through multiple books, readers form a relationship with the characters, and opening the new installment feels like coming home to spend time with old friends. A long-running series is an interesting thing.
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