One of the weirdest literary phenomenon is when a writer puts out some piece of writing that just absolutely captures the attention of readers, and then there’s a follow-up scramble to capitalize on that success. In some cases, it’s downright embarrassing for those involved when say a drawerful of juvenilia gets published and ultimately kills the momentum and even sometimes the writers’ career as a consequence. Sometimes a not great second novel appears soon thereafter, and it turns out it was written long before the […]