Many of you who read this blog regularly already know how much I admire the work and character of author Bret Lott. I blogged about it here, but I can sum up like this: I first read his novel Jewel in 1999, on my honeymoon, and then, I began writing. For me, Bret Lott started everything.
He's a generous, very kind person, and after a little polite stalking (Besides entering contests he judged and sending submission after submission to TSR when he was their editor, I tracked him down at AWP in DC a few years ago and then again when he came to read at my alma mater the following spring), he agreed to read my forthcoming novel. I was so thrilled. Even better, he offered a blurb:
"Goliath is a beautiful and quietly moving story of love, grief, forgiveness and redemption — heady themes handled here with a big heart and a deft hand. In prose exquisitely clear and with details that will make your heart ache, Susan Woodring has written a meaningful portrait of small town life, and what it means to move through grief toward love."
In a sense, this is what I've worked ten-plus years to achieve. I'm so grateful.
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