I Published a Book Five People Read

Why I’m not mad about it.

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I liken the performance of my second book to getting weighed at the doctor’s office. Standing there, eyes pressed shut I’d shout, I don’t want to see, I don’t want to know, but I do know this — the number is never great. Paling in comparison to my impressive debut, which was published when I was young, naive, and filled with possibility. When all I wanted was…