Hello from way out here to way out there.

As anyone can guess from my publication history, I'm a slow, slow writer. Two books in ten years. So blogging has always seemed to me an unlikely occupation. The immediacy, the need to keep it up...

But my books, especially As She's Told, create reactions. Readers respond and comment, and I follow those comments with fascination, winces, gratitude, glee. Hiding only works for so long.

I do hang out on Fetlife.com, by the way, and I'm more than happy to be friends with readers. Feel free to visit me there.

About As She's Told. It's created some pretty strong reactions. Some I expected, others I didn't. It didn't occur to me that people would read it who would find its contents disturbing. I thought I'd had Anders provide enough clues to the extreme nature of the power exchange, early enough in the book, to keep those folks from continuing.

What I didn't count on was reluctant readers feeling drawn in despite themselves. Of course there's some gratification in knowing the writing has that power. But there's no satisfaction in upsetting anyone, or imposing unwelcome images on their minds; quite the contrary. Read the reviews; if that level of kink and intensity aren't your thing, please just move on.

To those readers who have offered praise and thoughtful comments, many, many thanks. I spent years with Maia and Anders, feeling like I'd created friends from the seeds of myself. If they've found more friends out in the world, then so have I.