I quit my day job in 2006. If someone had told me it would
take me eight years before I published my first book, I’m sure I would still be
working that day job or one like it. I thought it would take me a year…maybe
two tops. I was ambitious and overly confident. I didn’t realize that if it
took me ten years that would be normal.
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Edith Cohn, Middle Grade Author |
I didn’t know many other writers at the time. The ones I did
know were unpublished like myself. I attended my first writers’ conference that
fateful year of 2006, the Rutgers One on One Plus where Laurie Halse Anderson
was the keynote speaker. I got so fired up about finishing my book, I exploded
into a firecracker of determination. I quit my job while living in NYC—probably
the most expensive city in the US. I was armed with what every writer needs: A
benefactor. Mine came in the form of a supportive husband. But it was far from
easy. We were both dreamers. We didn’t really have the money to pull this off. Eventually,
we moved some place cheaper. We took and borrowed from other kind benefactors:
The Father-in-Law, The Credit Card.
Artists have been doing this for ages. And they will
continue to do it, because that’s what being a novelist is. It would take me
several years before I realized it, but indeed, writers are artists. Sure, some people make money as authors. Some
people also win the lottery. The truth for most of us? Being a successful
novelist is a long game.
It’s a long game. Kristen
Kittscher said this to me recently. She is one of those authors who encourages
and supports other authors. She’s the sort of person who kindly turns on the
lights when you might be feeling around in the dark. She said this phrase to me
not in regards to money, but in regards to building a readership.
Because not only is getting published a long game, it’s also
a long game after you get published.
Being published isn’t the finish line. Being published allows you a place at
the starting line.
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Spirit's Key FSG/ Macmillan |
Publishing a first novel is only the beginning of our careers.
I’m so thrilled to have SPIRIT'S KEY my debut novel, a mystery about a psychic girl and her ghost dog, on the shelves. But I'm a newbie at a new job. I’m only beginning to build a readership, to
navigate bookstore events and festivals, to get the word out about who I am and
what I have to offer. I’m surrounded by more experienced authors who have more
books under their belts and readers who already love them. Edith who? Spirit’s
what? It’s enough to make one panic.
But then, Kristen’s words come back to me: It’s a long game. There’s no reason to get
one’s blood pressure in the red. I might be at the starting line again with new
goals to accomplish, but it’s actually not a race. It’s a game where I will
publish not one book, but many books. It’s a game where I will build a
readership and success through my work over many years. It’s a game where I
will do what I have always done published or not: I will write. And that is
always a dream come true.
A fun dream-come-true video where I open a hardcover copy of SPIRIT'S KEY for the first time.
Edith Cohn is the author of SPIRIT'S KEY a middle grade mystery about a twelve-year-old psychic girl who works with the ghost of her pet dog to solve a crime on a remote island filled with magic keys, wild dogs and superstitious characters. Learn more at www.edithcohn.com
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