Today is February 14—Valentine’s Day. So I’m sending love to all you readers out there.
Where would we writers be without our readers? We’d be “playing to an empty house,” to borrow the vernacular of the theatre.
If nobody read our books (and articles and poems and essays and miscellany), we’d soon be out of business. We’d have to find “job jobs”—we’d have to be bank tellers or teachers or store clerks or security guards or flight attendants or sales reps…which, in fact, some writers are already, working their day jobs and then writing at night with whatever energy they have left. But we’d ALL be in that boat without our readers.
You readers out there not only contribute to our financial well-being but give us an outlet and an audience for our creativity. And we love you for that. Hence this Valentine.
Want to show us you love us back?
Buy a book!
Happy St Val’s Day!