What do you do when you receive wonderful feedback – you cry with appreciation …

To be taken seriously is such a fundamental human need. The more I listen to the people around me the more I realise much of what keeps people striving to do better is recognition for a job well done and an understanding of our own unique and different identities.
In all my years of breeding Arabian horses I have never considered I have bred the perfect horse. With this impossibly hard task behind me, the horse breeding experience has taught me that I would probably never write the perfect novel. As with horses, what one person considers perfect another does the head shaking routine.  In actual fact I don’t think I need to write the perfect novel but to have my years of hard work  appreciated is reward enough.

They say “virtue is its own reward”  if I can give readers a sense of understanding, meaning and purpose while offering a few hours of respite from a day to day routine I’ve done my job to entertain.

Dear Carmel,
I have finished reading Winds of Time and I absolutely loved it.
You have drawn an exciting plot and threaded it through with vigour and more than a little suspense. The vibrancy of the story matches that of the evocative, haunting Egyptian backdrop. You skilfully place us into the characters’ world and we care what happens to each of them. I think you have an uncommon insight into ‘the human condition’ to write as you do, and you culminate the trilogy powerfully and tenderly.
This book and series of books, in my opinion, stand up with quality in their genre anywhere internationally. I hope that you are justly recognised for these works, and for your gifts and drawing power as an author.
Dr. Glenys Drew