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Mixed Feelings


 

So much joy, joy, joy to see two of my books listed in the catalogue of circulating volumes  for the Prince George's County Memorial Library System https://pgcmls.info/ along with so many other great reads from past, current and future authors participating in The Write Women Book Fest! 

Conflicting feelings about the one copy of Seducing the Burks, Five Erotic Tales by Cardyn Brooks that's now missing: Is it lost forever? Did a library patron on a tight budget enjoy it so much that they "forgot" to return it?* Whichever the answer, believing that someone is rereading my very first published, IPPY award-winning book gives me all kinds of good feelings. 

Happy reading! 
Cardyn Brooks (also writes as C. X Brooks) 
*This author doesn't condone stealing, and at the same time recognizes that extenuating circumstances happen. 

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