How to Get a Book Deal: One Debut Author’s Journey to Publication
5 min readOct 2, 2020
2000–2009: Write a story about a kid farting. It amuses your 4th grade teacher. You like how your words made someone feel something. Continue writing. Write weird werewolf and Dragonball Z inspired stuff in middle school. In high school, enter your angsty teen poetry phase. Your creative writing teacher Freshman year calls your parents because she is “concerned” about the…
