Here's an excerpt from my novel !!!!!!! ...because I promised it a while back and never delivered. I first wrote this story in 2014, and I always knew it would be the second one I would publish. Then Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give was published a couple years later, and although our stories focus on two different topics, the tension and focus on race is similar. Had I tried to publish my story during the first swell of the Black Lives Matter movement, I don't think it would h

This is the most agonizing part of seeking representation for your work, and the higher the stakes, the more laser-focused I become.