What was harder, finding a home or writing a book?
It’s neck to neck. It took me three years to do both. And both require you to look long and hard at who you really are, not who you wish you were, and be willing to accept the scrutiny that comes with that. It was harder than I’d imagined to find a home, and to find a publisher. The first time I shopped around the book nobody was interested—I guess it was too soon. Then, about a year later, housing became much more of an issue. So I got a new agent, reworked the proposal and it sold. As you were writing about your own personal housing crisis, did you sense where the narrative of the American housing mess was going? And if so, how did that affect your writing? I kept thinking that this was a lot like it was during the dot com boom, where people were handing you the idea of money rather than real money. The idea of value and the idea of prosperity, which is different than real value and worth and prosperity. And I remember going to these open houses and seeing people open up their checkb
It’s neck to neck. It took me three years to do both. And both require you to look long and hard at who you really are, not who you wish you were, and be willing to accept the scrutiny that comes with that. It was harder than I’d imagined to find a home, and to find a publisher. The first time I shopped around the book nobody was interested—I guess it was too soon. Then, about a year later, housing became much more of an issue. So I got a new agent, reworked the proposal and it sold. As you were writing about your own personal housing crisis, did you sense where the narrative of the American housing mess was going? And if so, how did that affect your writing? I kept thinking that this was a lot like it was during the dot com boom, where people were handing you the idea of money rather than real money. The idea of value and the idea of prosperity, which is different than real value and worth and prosperity. And I remember going to these open houses and seeing people open up their checkb
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