 She wrote fantasy, she wrote in third person, she wrote in first person, and her writing teacher encouraged her to keep going with realistic fiction, that that was where her gift lied. So, yeah, she was not an overnight success. She wrote short stories and she submitted them to parenting magazines that got rejected. She wrote manuscripts and was rejected by every major publishing company, which I thought was just such an incredible detail for someone that we now think of as such a legend in the publishing world.