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Raj,

For me the path wasn\’t littered with any rejection at all. My first effort saw print, and subsequent titles have made it as well. My list is up to 104, and 105 is due out in Jan.  So I guess I\’m not the one to ask about the gloomy side of writing. What you seem to be asking is what gimmick there might be to avoid the \”challenging landscape.\” I recommend that you write your stuff, period. If you don\’t make it by being yourself, so be it. But there are always new ways, new thoughts, different viewpoints, and no one can tell what will catch on and what won\’t.

I realize all this isn\’t very encouraging, and I\’m sorry about that. I wish you well. I wish everyone well. I know what it feels like to have something to say and to wish passionately to have an audience for it.

Good luck.                                                                                                      —–Gordon Korman—–