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Oct 23, 2023Liked by Robyn Ryle

Beautiful!

Sending thoughts of healing and comfort as you repair.

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Thanks so much!

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So glad you got that moment of magic. I remember when I got my first review, from a stranger, then when I sold my 100th book and a friend celebrated with me, saying, "even you don't have that many friends," and then the email, I think it was when the book had been out a year, from a person who told me that the book had been a comfort to them as they sat with a parent in hospital. Each memory, magic.

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Those are all so lovely!

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“Yes, I’m happy to tell you what it’s all about. No, I will not cry when you set my book back on the table and walk away.” - I felt this right in my gut.

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Ugh, yes. I know I'm not alone, which is some comfort.

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Oct 23, 2023Liked by Robyn Ryle

Loved the travel description; my insides ache at the day description except for the magic moment. I don't know how you find the strength And have more planned!

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Thanks, Sandy. I'm also very lucky to be at a book festival at all, even if there are cringe-worthy moments. The cringing goes with the territory. I think my skin is getting thicker?

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I loved this. You exactly captured the book festival hope, angst, and yes magic. That girl is your real reader and she found you because you cared enough to write the book she needed to read.

I experienced my moments of magic away from the crowds in the form of emails. One came from a mother of a veteran whose son had suffered much upon his return from Iraq. She told me she bought it for friend whose son was due to return and her friend said it shoped how she planned to respond to him. The other came from a 16-year-old girl who picked it up off a bargain table at a bookstore, desperate fir something to write about for a school assignment. She stayed up for two nights reading it, she told me. She had questions. Those emails meant everything.

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Those e-mails sound amazing. They do mean everything. Also why I ALWAYS write to an author when I love their book. Sending that energy out into the world and hoping it comes back around.

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💫Like seeing a shooting star 💫

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Exactly like that!

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Just beautiful, Robyn.

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Thanks so much, David.

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Magical indeed! And I love your spell.

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Thanks, Sandra! I'm having such fun with it, it doesn't really matter whether the spell works or not. But also, I believe it does.

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