Loaded for Bear – Publication Story, Part 5

You know how people will talk up a new haunted house until you're terrified? You try to chicken out, but your friends won't let you. They drag you inside and you're convinced every corner you turn will be your last, until about halfway through you pry open your eyelids and realize – "Wait a minute. This isn't that scary after all."

That was my editor appointment at the writer's conference.

Much like the agent appointment, Mr. Long took my onesheet after introductions and spent some time...