2 posts tagged with "publishing"

The kettle clicks off and the kitchen goes still, except for the hush of rain along the gutters. Your mug fogs your glasses when you lift it, and the cat—always suspicious of wet weather—noses the window and retreats to your lap. Somewhere a phone buzzes with an alert you don’t need. It’s just you, the page, and the sense that stories, like rivers, move even when we can’t see the current.

The room is quiet except for the soft tick of a kitchen clock and the slow turn of pages. Your manuscript sits warm in your hands—full of sentences you’ve nursed at midnight, coffee cooling in a chipped mug. Then the quotes from editors land in your inbox, and your stomach drops. How are you supposed to afford the thing everyone says you can’t skip?