Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, and authors in between. Except this is Wednesday, you say. Well, yes, I double booked which means bonus for Dear Author readers. Cody McFadyen’s second book, The Darker Side, is out on the bookshelves now.
***
My first sale came after a long and what I like to think of (with writer’s melodrama) as bloody series of events. Events that involved violence, soul searching and screaming at the moon. Events that tested friendships and nearly broke a marriage only to truly break it later.
What events?
Why, money-troubles of course. I’m flip about it as I write this now… but maybe not really. There’s still a kind of haunting-uncomfortable-sickly feeling that comes over me when I really remember what that was like.
We’d had our own business, my wife and I, and it had been successful for some time. Unfortunately, we hadn’t read the winds of change very well. Less and less people were in need of, or demanding, our services. We started to hemorrhage money …
Loading ...
Open Threads at Dear Author. Want to know what new releases are out this month and what readers are excited about reading? Check out the threads below. 
We don’t like to censor comments nor do we endorse the comments of any poster. We do reserve the right to moderate comments but most of the time will not, believing, as Justice Brandeis did, that the greater good is in “more speech, not enforced silence.”
