I would like to thank you for bringing about, in my opinion, a literary masterpiece. I am only 19, but very well read for my age, and I can say with all honesty and confidence that A Strong and Sudden Thaw is, by astronomical proportions, the best book that I have ever read. I find it hard to articulate just how strongly I feel about this book, and that is NEVER difficult for me! I struggle to find the words to express how your words made me feel. I felt absolutetely immersed in the story of David and Callan throughout the novel. I boiled with apprehension, felt giddy and warm at their cute playfulness, cried during thir most trying times. No book has ever brought me to tears, but this one did a number of times throughout, as well as after I finished, crying simply out of the sake of its beauty. Your descriptions through David during his love scenes with Callan were articulated in a way that made it art. I don’t really enjoy novels with eroticism where slang-type language is used (if you know what I mean,) and this book certainly didn’t. This novel was phenomenal in every respect as far as I’m concerned and I am ecstatic with anticipation for the sequel.
I was rather surprised when I found out that A Strong and Sudden Thaw was your first novel. I believed that an author of your caliber must have been a veteran. Your writing is incredible, holding me with every word on every page. I read your novel on my Kindle (the first I read once I got it, actually), and ordered a hard copy of the novel simply for the sake of having it.
You are truly a gifted writer and I SO look forward to all of your future works.

Sorry for such a long-winded comment; I just had to get this out!

Thank you!!

-Kaleb

Thank you so much. As a huge Harry Potter fan, I can’t tell you how much it means to hear you even mention my book in the same sentence as J.K. Rowling’s! And I’m in awe of anyone who can draw, as I have zero talent in that department, so it’s wonderful to hear that you’ve been inspired to do art – good luck with that, and with all your creative work.

Comments like this mean so much – thank you again!

As a writer yourself, you know that we never really know how our books and stories will be received – I wrote Thaw because it was a story I felt compelled to tell, and most of the time, I have nothing beyond sales figures to indicate whether it worked or not. Your comments remind ME of why I write, so thank you again. And I wish you all the best in your own writing!

Sorry, just had to post this, I don’t think it in anyway negates your point, since it’s used there for a particular reason, it was just the first thing that popped into my mind on reading this.

I always feel slightly tacky searching out an author to respond to their work, but here I am doing it… I finished reading Thaw yesterday, and after a giddy series of e-mails to mon hypocrite lecteur/semblable/frere, I’ve decided to bite the bullet…

I wanted – needed – to give you a heartfelt thank you for writing that book. It’s not often that I’m able to heap unqualified praise on an LGBT novel – because frankly, with the best will in the world, I usually have greater or lesser reservations with all of those I read – but in this case, I really didn’t have even the slightest niggle. My own drive to write has always been based on the fact that the books that I want to read don’t exist – without wanting to sound self-indulgent, I so rarely find myself, or anything that resembles my experience, represented anywhere. And then, on the rarest of occasions, I come across a book like A Strong and Sudden Thaw… And I feel it. Not in my head, or even for that matter my heart, but somewhere deep in the pit of my stomach…

Sorry – I’m proving myself utterly incapable of expressing what I wanted to… I just wanted to let you know that sometimes art can remind you of why you continue to bother to consume and produce – of what a work that truly resonates with your being on some primal level can do. It reminds me why I read – and why I write – in the first place. So, again, thank you.

Your English is great, and thank you!

I didn’t write Haunted Hearts – it’s by another author using the same pen name. I wish there was a way for me to indicate that on Amazon, but I can’t figure out how to do it.