A Story of Miracles + Thoughts on Sanjiang and the Paid Launch (Going Paid Early Sunday Morning)

This book should never have existed.

It would have sat in my drafts folder, occasionally pulled out by its author for a private read.

This book should never have existed.

I submitted it three times through the Writer's Assistant dashboard, and every submission was rejected.

This book should never have existed.

When I decided to try somewhere else, they rejected it outright for an utterly incredible reason.

The reason was-

"Your QQ avatar looks familiar, but I can't find you in the group. To be safe, we won't sign you."

Normally, by that point, you would be at a dead end.

Once, twice, three times, four times.

Four rejections in all.

Any normal person should have started wondering whether something was seriously wrong with their writing.

But I didn't.

My writing was pretty ordinary, but I was very confident.

The reason was simple: I had a blast writing it, and a blast reading it.

If an editor rejected it, the problem had to be with the editor.

They couldn't experience that thrill, so they'd made the wrong call.

I believed that as long as I could get a contract, the book would resonate with at least some readers.

We could all have a blast together.

So all I needed was to find an editor with terrible taste who would sign me.

The fifth editor I submitted to, Editor Zhimo, sent me a site message.

A miracle happened.

Of course, what I was thinking was-

Hehe, I finally found one with terrible taste.

Quick, publish the book while their judgment is still impaired.

GO!

Apparently, my thinking had finally been right for once.

On its first day in the new-release pool, it gained 283 bookmarks.

On its second day in the new-release pool, it gained 485 bookmarks.

On its third day