I’ve been feeling pretty restless today. I found myself with a free afternoon and, facing my to-be-read pile, I just couldn’t find anything that I really wanted to read.
Most of the books in my pile are paranormals from the library, all from fine writers, but frankly, everytimes I open one, I am struck with anxiety. Mostly because I write nothing like them and I just fear deceiving the reader who will pick up my book thinking I do. Sigh.
So I wandered around and ended up rereading John Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist whose ideal writer is so beyond me that it is comforting.
Since I have such a hard time finding comfort books, it got me thinking of the new writers I’ve read and loved this year. While 2008 gave me Caitlin R. Kiernan and Philip Pullman, this year I discovered China Mieville, Georgette Heyer and Stephanie Rowe’s funny light paranormal. Yes eclectic taste but all so far from my own writing that I can get lost in them and return to my first passion, curl up with a good book.
If you happen to pass by this blog, tell me, what author did you discover in 2009?
Blessed Be
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