Letter to the Author

Posted by Meg

We sometimes don’t know how what we do can affect other people. I think that one of my favorite things about reading books is that I am, in a sense, sharing a whole dreamt up world with the author and all the other people also reading it. It’s a shared experience even though it feels very close and very personal. Such are the joys of reading.

Over the summer, Peat got a really touching email from a woman named Penny and wanted to share it with everybody. This is what she had to say.

Hello,

I am the mother of a 23 year old son with Tourette Syndrome and OCD. His name is Levi. We live in a small farming community in Indiana. He has been basically housebound for close to 8 years. A few weeks ago I picked up one of your books at K-Mart. He loved your book so much … he could barely sleep. He asked me to get all your books and I’ve ordered what I could afford. I run a Licensed Daycare Home because I always had to be home with him. I homeschooled him from the 9th grade up. I was sad to see The Great Bazaar was so out of reach for us. We live on our own and money is pretty tight. Do you know if there will be a time that it will cost less? He just sits around holding your book, feeling the cover, like it is the most precious thing in the world.

I just got through ordering all the Raymond Fiest books the Riftwar Series three weeks ago, after he read the first two books … while he was waiting on the rest, he read your book and now he won’t touch the others until he can read all of your books. I try to do what I can to make him happy and anything that I can possibly do to make his life better I try to do. He never asks for anything special. He has been going through a rather rough time right now and he has been really sad and withdrawn for months. It was really good to see him so excited about something. I’m still on Amazon searching for the rest of your books that I can afford. He read The Warded Man and I have already ordered The Desert Spear. I saw where The Great Bazaar and the Brayan’s Gold are related to the other books. I don’t know how many you have, but I will be hunting them down tonight and hopefully I will be able to find the rest of them. I’m new at searching for things online and I was hoping to find a list of all your books in the order they need to be read.

I want to thank you for giving my son an escape from his own Demons. He is such a good boy and you have given him something to look forward to. Believe me, I was trying everything to get him to open up. He talks to me about your book and I will be looking forward to reading them myself if my son ever lets your book out of his sight. Just wanted to let you know you made a difference in someone’s life and that’s pretty special!

Thanks,

Penny

Thank you so much to Penny for reaching out. We sent Levi a signed copy of Brayan’s Gold last Monday.

Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:00 am by megelizabeth
Filed under Brayan's Gold, Fans, Life, Meg
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