I don't get many comments or messages from readers generally, which is fine - I'm more than happy to look at numbers and see people generally giving my work good ratings, and honestly I'm a fairly reclusive person who enjoys being left alone anyway. But occasionally someone does get in touch with nice comments, and it always makes me smile. Here's an email I received from a reader yesterday about Room Service, which I'm sharing with permission.
"This went to a pretty dark place! Very raw, vulnerable and intimate in the direst sense possible. Your prose is excellent at getting the reader into the mindset of our not-so-innocent protagonist; I had chills as I read it.
I'm impressed, but also a little rattled (which I assume is at least partly by design, given the subject matter)."
This story was my first foray into non-consent, a genre that I have complicated feelings about, and it was a little uncomfortable to write in places. So it was nice to see that it landed for at least one reader.