‘The world needs more of her writing’

I was hunched over the kitchen counter this morning, bleary-eyed, trying to fix myself a cup of coffee, and then from the other room I heard this: “Hey, you’re on CNN.”

Honestly, I thought he was talking to somebody else. (Who that would be I’m not sure, but I was tired.)

Then I thought he was kidding.

Then I looked at his iPad, and sure enough, there was CNN’s Beach Read list for the summer with (wait? what?!) my name next to the name of my book.

Sandi Shelton, a Connecticut novelist with the pen name Maddie Dawson, read PEOPLE LIKE YOU and loved it and went on to say dreamy things about the characters and the writing.

She said:

“Malone’s characters are funny and unhappy and self-sabotaging and honest and brave,” says Shelton.

Every time this happens, I’m still dumbfounded that someone gets it,  what I was trying to do with those stories. It blows me away.

She also said:

“I couldn’t stop reading these stories and now I find myself missing them, so I go and reread them over and over. I want to go over to Malone’s house and cook her meals and do her grocery shopping so that she has time to write more books, because the world needs more of her writing.”

Happy to take you up on this offer, Sandi.

Here is the LINK to the BEST BEACH READS of 2017.

Thanks again.