on Write Well, Sell Well:

For those of you who love a good horror story, fasten your seatbelts.  You’re about to hear a doozy.

I must warn you, there are no guts or high-pitched screams, no axes or dark forests, but there is death. Death of ego and pride, dreams and aspirations…no less bloody but maybe less chill bump inducing.

It begins the way all good horror stories start.

I’m just kidding. It begins in about the most ordinary way you can imagine. With a phone call. A longtime acquaintance called to tell me of her new ambitions writing YA fiction. I knew her to be a fantastic writer. She’d been published before, had gotten involved in other adventures, and was finally returning to something she loved.

We talked for a while and she asked me about some strategies for how she might re-enter the publishing world. It was about as ordinary of an event as you could imagine. But things were about to get interesting.

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