Kent Wynn, and others

Have you ever stopped abruptly and taken up a different project and never gone back to the old one?
When I first read this question I thought my answer was going to be a brief "nope".
But then recalled that time I did a full stop and went in a completely new direction. After one too many disappointments; I turned my back 180 degrees on my stupid futile crime novels that would never make it, and instead got into writing literary brochures.
Well, one literary brochure. Yes, it was the product of...