Caitlín R. Kiernan

I track your posts. I get notified in email when you update. I just don't want to miss what you have to say. I often fail to comment. I second guess what I might say and how it would come across. It is silly, but I don't want to seem like some fangirl with you. I am. However, for me the connection to your work goes so much deeper than that. I look forward to the publication of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. I want to read what Imp has to say. I don't care how long it takes her to say it. I am just one reader. The story is the most important thing. And you are in there with your searchlight finding your way through to the end. I know it is a lonely journey and it is hard. I can say don't second guess yourself; you are one of the greats. I doubt that would do any good at all. No matter the level you are at as an artist or writer, it is just the creator and the work. The challenge is to do the best you can with the ability you have.The relationship is intimate, closed to everyone else.

One thing though, whatever impatient critics you face with this one - they don't know how to savor the best things in life.

My two cents.