Gullwing Odyssey
  • News
  • Characters
  • Features
  • Bookstore
  • Contact

What's Your Measure Of Authorial Success?

3/28/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
Everyone has his or her own measure of success. For some that measure is the number of cars in the garage. For others it's the number of push-ups they can do under a minute. But how do you measure the success of an artist? The easy answer is to count the number of zeroes in their bank balances, but that doesn't help us much because it applies as easily to the writer as to the welder. If the purpose of art is to get others to feel, then the degree of success is whether, and how well, the artist achieves this effect.

In the same vein I'd like to share with you something that really touched me and made me feel proud. On March 22, K. T. Bowes of New Zealand reviewed my novel, The Gullwing Odyssey, on Amazon. Ms. Bowes is a bestselling author on Amazon, with ten books to her name. While it's always a thrill to receive praise from others who've been at it longer than you have, what really moved me was this:

I absolutely loved it. I read it in hospital, waiting for my daughter to have emergency surgery and it should definitely have been harder for the author to engross me in anything -- yet he managed it.
Source: Amazon
These are the moments that make the task of writing (even editing -- ugh!) worthwhile, when someone else says, "That part was really funny," or "I really relate to this character." But rare and special is the instance where someone says, "I was going through a tough time, and your book made me smile."

That, to me, is the measure of a writer's success. That, for me, is why I do what I do.

I would like to extend a heartfelt and sincere thank-you to Ms. Bowes, and wish her and her family strength during their difficult times.

Check out K. T. Bowes's books now available on Amazon, and be sure to visit her blog, The Library Corner, for more great reads. Her latest, Demons On Her Shoulder, published this past Sunday, is a novel of restitution and hope, demonstrating that unique and powerful human ability to build a life from the ashes of destruction, a life without emotional demons.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Gullwing Blog

    Meet The Author

    Picture
    Antonio Simon, Jr. is a lawyer and author. When he’s not in court or writing, he's driving fast in moments in between.

    Live Feed

    Tweets by @AntonioSimonJr

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    Advice For Writers
    Awards & Reviews
    Events
    Gullwing Characters
    Gullwing Series
    Philosophy

    Archives

    July 2017
    October 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013

All content, including text, images, and documents, may not be reproduced or reused without the express written consent
of the author. Copyright © 2013 Antonio Simon, Jr. All rights reserved. Gullwing Odyssey is a trademark of Antonio Simon, Jr.
Read Our Privacy Policy