The year I was born!

Omg I love this title!!! And the book sounds awesome!

Supernatural comp always gets me 👀👀👀 And this sounds amazing!

OOH THIS SOUNDS SO GOOD!

Your children are budding horror writers, too

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn and yes! I still have a copy.

I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall like the holy scriptures of the shopping mall

And what metric is there for this anyway? I've seen people's careers take so many different trajectories. Like, "making it" doesn't necessarily look like one specific model of continuing to have success writing the same type of thing you started out writing forever.

If there's a suit I want in. They took my book too and that is the LAST thing I would give permission for it to be used for.

Trans kidlit author here!

That is awful. I'm so sorry.

And the tokenism, which isn't really anyone stealing your slot so much as there not being a fair amount to go around. You know, when a writer is told "This is good, but we already have a [x] book."

I will add here that *some* writers (i.e., marginalized ones) have a legitimate claim to not getting published or not getting good deals or industry backing for reasons outside of craft. But other writers' success is rarely to blame for our lack thereof.

Yep. Margaret Atwood was even honest about that; she's been asked how she thought of her ideas and said these are things that actually happened or are happening elsewhere in the world, iirc