My Embarrassing Secret, Publication Story, Part 1

Phone rings.

"Hello?"

"Hey, what are you doing?"

I look at the laptop burning a grid into my legs. I'm on page 157. Is it time to tell people? No, not yet.

"Just goofing off."

Sure, I wanted to be an author. And my daughter wanted to be a princess and my son planned for world domination. We all have our dreams.

The inconvenient dreams are those that are so special and so unlikely that you can't share them. You know the odds are against you, but you aren't ready to hear the cold, hard truth. You...