Call to Action.

Think about the effect on the country of books like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Silent Spring, The Jungle, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. Think about role models like Harry Potter, Dorothy of Oz, Anne of Green Gables, the Little Engine that Could. Writers have the power within them to change the world. Now is the time to write strong, write deep.

Realistic Fiction

People use fiction to escape from their own realities. The stories that have lasted through the ages have all been epic fantasies--The Iliad and The Odyssey, Beowulf. And think of our era's best sellers--a mistreated boy who becomes a renowned wizard, a teenager loved by a compassionate vampire.

But Fiorella also needs her fiction to be plausible. Even the one vampire novel she wrote made sense.

Dear God, she'll never get published.