The Sequel That Almost Wasn’t

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In writing as in life, everything sort of happens on its own time. Sometimes that time is by our own choosing. Oftentimes it is not.

The decade-plus-long path that I took to becoming a novelist was deliberate. It was a path of drafting, followed by years of letting the writing lie fallow, followed by a rewrite, a pitch for a certain novel, and a most unexpected phone call that led to a book contract.

But this story isn’t about that. This story is about what came later About how the Sarco tri...