My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know authors shouldn't play favorites with books, but 'Release Me' really is right up there for me. The characters truly came alive on the page and drove the story as much as I did from behind the scenes. It was a pleasure to write, and I'm so thrilled that it's the first of a trilogy because I get to spend more time with the characters.
Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.