I knew after writing the first two sentences that I wanted to spend more time with my narrator, Rose, and was willing to write a whole book just so I could listen to her take on this world and others.
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Unpronounceable
"Yes, I am a terrible person refusing interplanetary refugees, but then I am not a candidate pretending that you should give me the power to combat global warming with a nuclear winter. I am not a candidate to run anything, not even my own life."
It took me 19 years to go from the idea of Unpronounceable to the manuscript to finding a publisher to the book in print.