Comments on: Fond Farewell to Edith Layton http://www.loveromancepassion.com/fond-farewell-to-edith-layton/ Because Books Don't Fall Asleep Afterwards! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jo Manning http://www.loveromancepassion.com/fond-farewell-to-edith-layton/#comment-2358 Jo Manning Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:24:22 +0000 http://www.loveromancepassion.com/?p=3243#comment-2358 Edith Layton Felber was a class act. Not only an extremely talented writer, Edith was beautiful, kind, and generous to all. I got to know her after my first Regency romance, The Reluctant Guardian, was published. She, along with Mary Balogh and Barbara Metzger, was always available to answer the questions of a fledgling author. She blurbed my first non-fiction foray, My Lady Scandalous, along with Mary Jo Putney (another author famously kind to other writers), and I was forever grateful. Edith tried so hard to convince the-then-editor (who shall be nameless) at Signet to publish the sort-of-sequel to TRG, Seducing Mr. Heywood. It didn't work, but not for lack of her efforts! (Nor for Barbara Metzger's, either.) Ironically, it WAS published by NAL/Signet after that nameless editor left the company. Kindness is not an easily found commodity in the writing community, where some authors, alas, see themselves only in competition with other authors and cannot or will not spare a kind word for the efforts and success of others in their field. Edith knew that there was enough glory to go around, many times over, and refrained from tooting her own horn. She was a superb writer and she will be missed by readers as well as by the many friends she has left behind. Love you, Edith. Edith Layton Felber was a class act. Not only an extremely talented writer, Edith was beautiful, kind, and generous to all. I got to know her after my first Regency romance, The Reluctant Guardian, was published. She, along with Mary Balogh and Barbara Metzger, was always available to answer the questions of a fledgling author.

She blurbed my first non-fiction foray, My Lady Scandalous, along with Mary Jo Putney (another author famously kind to other writers), and I was forever grateful.

Edith tried so hard to convince the-then-editor (who shall be nameless) at Signet to publish the sort-of-sequel to TRG, Seducing Mr. Heywood. It didn’t work, but not for lack of her efforts! (Nor for Barbara Metzger’s, either.) Ironically, it WAS published by NAL/Signet after that nameless editor left the company.

Kindness is not an easily found commodity in the writing community, where some authors, alas, see themselves only in competition with other authors and cannot or will not spare a kind word for the efforts and success of others in their field. Edith knew that there was enough glory to go around, many times over, and refrained from tooting her own horn.

She was a superb writer and she will be missed by readers as well as by the many friends she has left behind. Love you, Edith.

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