Packaging Books

[neeshadm]

Cheri Cheva's She's So Money is on my nightstand, waiting to be read.  Yesterday, I flipped to the back flap to read about the author: 

Comments

[jonnyskov]

There was a time in my life when I would have gladly done the write for hire thing. Working as a warehouse grunt to support my wife and two small kids (one of whom was just beginning to show signs of a learning disability), money was tight, my agent had been shopping my first novel for over a year without success (that novel has been buried, never to see the light of day, btw). I was beginning to despair that my writing would ever amount to anything. In fact, I begged my agent to look for anything at all, even if it was something that I didn't own and would see no residuals for. I would write ANYTHING.

Fortunately, without exactly saying "no", she would remind me what it was I really wanted and not to reach for that low hanging fruit. It was about that time that the fateful "Why don't you try your hand at YA" conversation happened.

[neeshadm]

And we're so glad that conversation did happen! Another awesome YA author joins the ranks

[jonnyskov]

Hmm...there is a different between filling an "Asian writer" slot and an "Asian story" slot, though...