The Write Off

The Write Off

Author: Kara McDowell Listening Length: 10h 41m

Two rival authors are forced to confront a decade of love and heartbreak on the campus where it all started in this captivating debut romance by Kara McDowell. It’s been thirteen years since Mars Darling first met West Emerson on a bench outside their writing class. What started out as a friendly rivalry turned into a...

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Chapter 24

I wake up criminally early on the day Torched is published.

I’m an antsy little kid on Christmas morning, too excited to sleep.

I lie in bed and comb through my social media comments, congratulations pouring in from my family, friends, and anyone my parents have ever met.

My parents are deeply concerned about the way these “damn millennials” are buying too much avocado toast and moving back in with their parents, but now that I’ve survived a year and a half in New York without once asking for money, they’ve finally accepted that they can brag about me to their friends—without caveats that my book would be published eventually, someday, no really!