Why not start at the beginning? I’ll open this initial volume with my very first published story, a short that I wrote on a manual typewriter when I was a sophomore in high school. It was 1977, and I had already wanted to be a writer for years.
When digging through old boxes and files a few months ago, I came upon my high school scrapbooks and found the magazine that printed the story, a Wisconsin High School Writings publication. I was 14 years old.
Maybe Steven Spielberg will see it now and decide to make it into an epic $200M film! Or maybe not. Nevertheless, I was off and running.