I was thrilled to receive an email from David Shtogryn last night telling me that he “thoroughly enjoyed” my book. I was especially thrilled to have him admit that he normally reads two books at a time -shifting from one to the other- but once he started mine, he left the other one aside until he was finished 🙂
David’s been a friend of mine since I first met him in the mid-90s on the convention circuit (we were both guests and panelists at, I believe, Primedia followed by ConCept and Toronto Trek). Heck, he even came to my wedding 5 years ago and was the only one (along with his wife) to stay an extra day at the Auberge and have supper with us that second day 🙂 Heck, he was the last person I interviewed back in 1999 for my In Conversation… pieces 🙂
All this to say that along with being a friend, I greatly respect him as a writer of fiction and was really hoping he would like the book. 🙂