I’m in the writing business

By R.J. Harlick
If you weren’t a writer, would you still be in the book business? (bookseller, agent, editor, publisher) or would you do something completely different?
I’m a writer. It’s that simple. Though I came late in life to fiction writing, most of the jobs I have enjoyed invariably had a writing aspect to it. 
In university, while I hated studying, I loved writing essays.  Give me a topic and no matter how little I knew about the subject, I could make it sound as if I knew...