Then we were encouraged to write to trend. To trust that the really low quality covers were industry standard! That the object of the game was to pound out a book a month and to keep them between 20k-30k. Maybe 40k at most. To spam the social media with links because that's how you get sales!

I started drowning trying to fit all of these expectations. Drown. I lost my will to write because I was trying to do too much at once. I lost my voice. I bailed.

Part Eleven