The Surprising Secret Behind How 11 Authors Finally Landed Their Book Deals
Imogen and Karen agree. “Having to collaborate and ‘expose’ myself online was hard. I’m naturally a self-contained person, so working with people I didn’t know was initially uncomfortable,” says Imogen. “I’ve always had to do this in my work, and it never gets easier, you just get better at dealing with it.”
“The hardest thing for me has been stepping out of my comfort zone — not just writing my stories down, but releasing them into the greater world and soliciting feedback on them,” says Karen. “Necessary as both publication and critique are if we are to improve as writers, that’s really scary!”


