[DiamondDog]

Sam,

As someone who’s tried several times to get published – not with a book about poker I need hardly add – I find it very easy to admire someone who’s published their own work. I imagine when you go down that road there must be many times when it feels as though the actual writing was the easy bit.

If I may say so, you also do yourself huge credit by coming on to a forum hardly renowned for pulling punches and discussing your work in such an open and non-confrontational way. I thank you for that.

Your English teacher friend is wrong in my opinion. If they’ve read your book – which I’m sure they have – they should know that by now. Stylistically I never had the slightest problem with your book. I thought it was well written (although I guess I’d have to concede that like a lot of English teachers I’m no great judge in these matters).

Thanks for taking the time to reply.