Guest Post: Sherry Shahan on Skin and Bones

By Sherry Shahan
for Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations

Years ago I wrote a quirky short story about teens in an Eating Disorders Unit of a metropolitan hospital.

Sort of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” meets “Love Story.” Then titled “Iris and Jim,” it sold to a major literary journal. Later, a London publisher included “Iris and Jim” in their YA anthology, and after that it appeared in their Best Of collection.

In total “Iris and Jim” has appeared eight times worldwide.

My agent kept encouragi...