For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
Eric Jerome DickeyPeople know your tragedies and they treat you like youโre not human. Like youโre a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? Theyโre stuck on that person I used to be. They canโt see that old life as just a moment in time that Iโve moved on from. It was a horrible life.
Eric Jerome Dickey