I sat in the living room of a young woman in Houston this afternoon, in front of stacks of my brand new novel, The Threadbare Heart. The book doesn't officially come out until next Wednesday, but my publicist arranged to have books for this event (thank you Erin!) so there we were with the books. It was such a thrill to send those books out into the world in the hands of eager readers. Being a writer is a wonderful thing -- but the loop is not complete until a reader engages with the story. T...