So you want to be a writer. Your notebooks are filled with words, stories you’re sure people will want to hear. When you close your eyes, you can see your name on the cover of the next big thing to hit book clubs across the country.
Well, good luck. As young adult novelist Ryan Graudin ’09 is the first to admit, it takes a lot more than talent and an idea.
“Without the hard work, you won’t get anywhere,” says the author of All That Glows (HarperTeen 2014) and its sequel All That Burns (HarperTeen 2015), The Walled City (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2015) and the acclaimed Wolf by Wolf (Little, Brown 2015). “It also helps to have luck. But, even then, the odds are skewed against you.”
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