The time I fired my first (WASPy female) author
Ah, privilege — it makes fools of us all.
8 min readDec 7, 2021
She was everything an infant indie publishing house could want in an author. Or, at least, that’s how it appeared on the surface.
Her manuscript was written, edited, forwarded, and even formatted. It was cheeky, funny, heartwrenching, and vibrant. It targeted a profitable intersection of…