Goodreads asked James Cardona:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

James Cardona This is an easy one. It's the fans.

I love the creative process, and I am talking about creating anything, really. Anytime I can make something out of nothing, creation ex nihilo, I am exhilarated. So that would be a close second.

But for me it is the fans and their feedback. When I write, many times I pour my heart and soul into the work. Often times, my books are interspersed with little vignettes, anecdotes and true personal stories from my life or the lives of others that I know. In a way, I am putting myself down on paper.

And it has often been said that by reading a writer's work, the reader can learn more about the author than about the topic that the text is about because the writer's style illustrates, at some level, who he or she is and how he or she thinks.

So for both of these reasons, when a person tells me that they found something I have written to be enjoyable, touching or moving in some way, it makes me really glad that I put in the hours to bring the book to reality because what they read was not just an enjoyable tale but a little glimpse of what I look like inside.

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