My new novel, The SAVANT, has just been published and I'm thrilled to see the first two reviews posted on Amazon. Many thanks to those reviewers, who I don't know. I wish I did. I wish I could thank them.

One of them made a surprising comment. She said, "This book did something to me that I cannot explain. It made me feel different in a way nothing ever has."

That's quite a statement, and it genuinely touched me. An editor who read the draft said something similar. The book seems to have an im...