Author Kathleen Eagle, whose 1996 release, Sunrise Song , was named Most-Hanky Read in last year's Unofficial Romance Reader Awards , also writes reviews for her city's newspaper. Because she comes to reviewing with a different perspective than I do, I asked her to share her viewpoint. As a writer I can't possibly be objective about the subject when one of my own books is under scrutiny. I know that.
Writing is too personal.
A book springs directly from an author's head. It's a piece of me. If I couldn't do those things, I wouldn't still be publishing. But it's the reviewer's job to make pronouncements about the book after it's in print. No longer a work in progress.