Pay-Per-Hack Writer: on causing a reader to storm out of chapters ...

Wired with a terrified exhilaration, I took my seat in front of the shopping mall bookstore in Halifax and smiled when, minutes later, the first reader approached. The elderly woman picked up the book and asked what it was about. ... Sitting alone in a mall for two hours while people avoid eye contact does not increase feelings of sanity. "I still face book signings with mixed emotions that run the gamut from apprehension to confidence and pessimism to optimism," he ...