Blown out of my boots.
Today I was totally blown away. I was sitting today with my father, a biweekly activity. I finished reading Jack Ketchem's Offspring. It wasn't on my school approved reading list but it had similar themes to my thesis. Anyway I'm doing a review later. That's not what blew me away.
My mother arrived home and as we sat down to eat she asked me where the book was I left lying on the end table. I told her I had just finished reading it. She stated that my father's friend who has been sitting with him half days to help out had nearly finished it on Wednesday and wanted to take it home with him to finish. This blew me away. Firstly, I didn't know that this guy read. Secondly, I had no idea he enjoyed such gory stories. HE even admitted he liked it because of its intensity.
This is a coal miner, who has never heard of Jack Ketchum nor of most of the author's I've read but still enjoyed the story. I'm blown away because, we (horror writers with really nasty ideas) have audiences.
I am shocked and amazed and happy.
