The real-time diary of writing a book and trying to get it published. It's a wild ride, y'all.

A crown breaking on a Montana highway. A query letter rewritten three times until it stopped sounding safe. This is the real, weekly, occasionally-unhinged account of writing a book while running a business — the wins, the rejections filed under "weather," and everything in between.

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Becca Thompson Becca Thompson

Out the Who-Ha

One rejection. One "resubmit." One manuscript I accidentally sent unedited. Weird, but true anomaly: querying and volleyball tryouts run on similar odds. I did the math.

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