Four months ago, my debut novel, The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair , came out. The launch was a wild night at Tulsa's Magic City Books, and was the largest in-store event they've ever had in their 8-year history (do not tell the fire marshal). Not only that, Busy Philipps happened to be shopping that night (she was in town filming a movie) and I was able to meet her, give her a copy of the book, give her a friendship bracelet my daughter had made for attendees, and take a selfie...

Chapter One of The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair, by Meg Myers Morgan

Six years ago, when my last book came out, I had a silly belief that everyone I knew would buy that book. And read it. In that was the...