Thank you for your insightful article.

If just one person had sat me down when I signed my first book contract and explained how publishing works, how nothing is guaranteed, and how it often feels like playing Russian Roulette with words, I would have made much sounder financial and creative decisions. I would have set a foundation for a healthy life as an artist, laying the groundwork to thrive in uncertainty, to avoid desperation, panic, and bad decisions that would affect me for years to come.

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John McElhenney

1 min readSep 17, 2019

Thank you for your insightful article. I already feel better. I have been craving a big contract and quietly publishing my books via IngramSpark. So far, so good. Hopeful and dutifully employed doing other things.

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John McElhenney is an author, life coach, and musician who lives in Austin, Texas. He’s best known for his single dad blog, The Whole Parent. (wholeparent.org)

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