LitHub Article

Why I gave myself 10 Years to Publish a Novel

I wrote an article for LitHub about why Black Chalk almost never got published due to an astonishing (and painful) number of rejections from the Publishing Industry. It opens like this:

“It was a one-decade deal. I’d given myself ten years to become a published novelist, and now my time was almost up. Three, two, one. . . The next day I would turn 40, an event that would seal my sense of failure. Tomorrow I was quitting writing for good…” Read the rest of my article here on LitHub.