April 15, 2016
I can’t give voice to Kim’s characters, only to how I relate to them.
I preordered copies of The Drafter mass market to be a reader and a writer who stands with Kim. It’s the opportunity to respect skill (like Rachel with Peri in Waylaid).
Story is about absolute and irreversible change. Not deciduous trees shedding leaves in the winter and sprouting new in the spring, but caterpillars becoming butterflies. Such is the nature of my transition to writing. I have many people to thank, but none more than Kim Harrison. Her skill at crafting story gave me The Truth series, The Princess series, The Madison Avery series, The Hollows series, and now The Detroit series with Peri Reed. All the while, this ravenous reader was unknowingly teetering on change; a caterpillar instinctively following an intuitive sense of purpose to find expression (wings as it were) in the art of writing.
Anyone who follows Kim’s work knows she stepped away from guaranteed success with The Hollows series to bring a new voice to her writing and to us readers. It appears to have come with the standard acceptance that change to new and different usually receives. In one release, not two, not three – just one – she went from an author with legions of readers to an author practically invisible to her publisher.
To me, purchase of The Drafter signals a united stand – by any reader who has ever related to one of her characters and every writer who has ever felt invisible – for who you are and all you are going to become!