Years ago when I was a newbie writer, via online groups I met a best selling romance writer named Deborah Smith. Deborah is a woman with a wild sense of humor and a personality larger than life. This incredibly talented woman helped all us newbies with our queries about writing. Not only did she reveal ‘the secret’ of writing a best seller that every newbie writer thinks exists, but she did one thing for me that still puts a lump in my throat. I told her I had never read a book she had written. We didn’t have any in the book shops in Australia. We also didn’t have Amazon in those days. Not long after that, a huge box of books arrived for me, all signed by her. She had even found books that were out of publication and bought them to send to me. I was then and still am stunned by her generosity.
So, thank you Deborah Smith for being Deborah Smith.