Your First Bookstore Reading
‘Is the main character supposed to be you…?’ and other rites of passage awaiting the first-time author
Published in
6 min readJul 8, 2019
It took you four years to cobble together enough half-hour time intervals to complete a 250-page novel. You painstakingly crafted such an intricate plot that Amazon user CrazyMogambo said it reminded him of something he had read somewhere. The…
