When Readers Write Authors

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]There's a letter I received from someone who recently finished reading my second book.

[00:00:08]I was inspired to write this by the scene in the final chapter of your book when an eagle lands in the tree outside your house at dinner time.

[00:00:16]Savannah says, "It's your mother."

[00:00:19]The effectiveness of how you wrote that scene allowed me to feel the electric energy that was in the room of your house that day.

[00:00:27]Pecking me, dude. Back up. Back I love how you began your book with your mother's end-of-life and ended it with her return in her chosen form.

[00:00:42]The beginning of your book was tough.

[00:00:44]I felt it in my gut.

[00:00:47]The end of your book brought a graceful wholeness of closure.

[00:00:53]This is what I was inspired to write.

[00:00:55]Kind of what I imagined your mother would say to you if she could check in on you and your family.

[00:01:07]YouTube channel Secret Garden Alaska to hear the letter from my dead mother.

[00:01:15]And don't forget to read my second book just like a soldier.

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