For the past two years, I have shopped this manuscript to publishers and agents. I've submitted it to contests. And every single time, the answer has been the same. No, no, no.

I need to let it go. I need to give it up. Seriously. I wrote it with the express purpose of marketing it here in Pittsburgh, capitalizing on the whole 'local author' thing to increase my sales. I'm probably leaving Pittsburgh in less than a year. I'm really leaning that way. Even if it was to be picked up now, I wouldn't be here to promote it.

But, even so, I just can't let it go.

It's stubbornness. Pure and simple. The manuscript is intrinsically flawed. Every single person has said the exact same thing. It's unsellable. And yet, I persist. Right now, right in this mome...

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