Chapter 0130
“Why would you say that I can’t write? Don’t you know how big of a humiliation that sentence is to an author?
“Yes, fine, you’re the editor, and I should trust your instincts and your eye for the market trends and whatnot. But those themes and topics aren’t my cup of tea. It’s too big of a change from my usual genre. I can’t do it even if I tried!
“I think we both need some time to cool down. Alright, I’m hanging up. I’ve got other things to do.”
Mindy hung up. She then turned and was met with Mirnda’s inquisitive eyes. She smiled and said, “It’s nothing. Just my editor from the publisher’s.”
“Are you sure it’s really nothing?”
“Why would I lie to you?” Mindy asked in amusement while pu g Miranda into a hug. “The publishing industry hasn’t been doing well lately. Many popular authors have switched to publishing web novels now, and they’re earning pots of gold from it.
“Of course, there were also a handful of them who failed and disappeared off the face of the earth. My editor wants me to switch like them and write web novels instead. But I haven’t been able to make up my mind about it yet, so I’m still on the fence.”
“Web novels?” Miranda repeated in surprise. “What kind of web novels?”
Mindy smiled awkwardly. “Urban romance.”
Miranda was speechless for a while.
Mindy was a published mystery novelist. Back when mystery novels had been all the craze, Mindy made her grand debut with “Murder Weapon” and sold half a million copies.
Later in the same year, her follow–up thriller novel, “The Deserted School“, broke her personal sales record in a very short time as well.
That year was known as “Mindy Harrison’s Year“. Both her books were published across five volumes, and made it to the top 5 best–selling books of
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Soon after, all of Mindy’s works were first handed over to Edith for editing. publishing, and distribution
However, not everything went as Mindy Manned She didn’t manage to realize her dreams of furthering her career with Edith On the contrary, after signing with her, Mindy seemed to have been angel with a temble writer’s block.
Mindy’s ideas and proposals kept being turned down, with Edit ing they weren’t relatable for the current market and thus wouldn’t sell.
And if Mindy finally managed to plan out the entire novel plot and was raring to ge, she would then get a call from Edith saying that she had to change up the plet or else it wouldn’t werk
By the time Mindy was done changing the plot to what Edith wanted, Mindy would have already lest all interest in writing the novel.
Mindy fell troubled. Had her inspiration and imagination both run completely dry?
She still had so many stories, plots, and unable to put her thoughts into words anym
in her head. Was she simply
Sill, Mindy didn’t stop willing. She kept waiting every single day. By the time ten years passed, Mindy had already written well over a million words. However, they were all plots and stories that her editor had turned down before. Mindy simply took them as practice to write for fun.
Mindy never published any of those works. She never showed them to anybody else besides Lionel
However, it wasn’t true that Mindy never managed to publish any books at all during the ten year period.
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