Comments on: Damaged

By: Edie Ramer

Edie Ramer — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:46:24 +0000

Theresa, from reading part of your book, I see how damaged your characters are. You’re twisting that knife deep within their souls.

I nned the light too after the darkness. The book doesn’t need to end HEA, but it at least needs to end with hope. If it doesn’t, I won’t buy the writer’s next book.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:43:08 +0000

Edie,

I love reading about damaged characters. I love watching as they come to life even more. That’s one of the reason I love romance so much– in romance there is life and laughter at the end of the darkness. In mainstream or literary, there is damage and depression–followed by desolation and ended with death, or something even more destructive. Give me at some light at the end of the tunnel, otherwise i won’t read!

By: Edie Ramer

Edie Ramer — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:23:24 +0000

Glad I could help, Eli! I bet it will be a great help for your book. I got it from the library, but when the paperback comes out in May, I plan on buying it.

By: Elisabeth Naughton

Elisabeth Naughton — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:15:07 +0000

I gotta get that book. The hero in my wip is a reporter who’s spent a lot of time overseas in war-torn countries. Thanks for the tip, Edie. I liked Anderson Cooper before I knew this.

By: Edie Ramer

Edie Ramer — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:55:33 +0000

Zoe, that’s what it sounds like. If I’m going to watch a movie based on a book, I think I’ll watch the latest Pride & Prejudice again. I saw it when it came out over a year ago, and was meaning to watch it again. That’s more my kind of movie.

By: Edie Ramer

Edie Ramer — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:52:51 +0000

Marcia, that is really deep. I’m glad you found a book that helped you come to that realization. You’re right, whatever it was, it wasn’t your fault.

By: Zoe Winters

Zoe Winters — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:46:28 +0000

Edie, then probably the movie ended like the book did.

By: Marcia

Marcia — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:28:25 +0000

Hmmmm…this subject is a little to close to home for me. However, I will say this about my particular non-fiction book. It changed my life to the point that I’m determined to never let anyone steal my happiness from me again. My “book” pissed me off to the point that I must have thrown it across the room a dozen times. Once I calmed down, I’d pick it up and continue reading from the last mangled page. It picked apart my personal experience and helped me understand questions like “Why me?”, “How did I get into this mess?”, and “How could I be so stupid?” In the end I learned the most valuable less of all: it wasn’t my fault.

By: Edie Ramer

Edie Ramer — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:50:12 +0000

Lunatic Liz it is. LOLOL

By: Liz Kreger

Liz Kreger — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:40:57 +0000

What you guy do? Hit a Thesaurus? I kinda like “Lunatic Liz”. Heh, heh, heh.

Unfortunately I don’t get a chance of hitting as many blogs per day as I like, but I try to space them out. I’m heading over to your blog now, May.