The Big Why: The Complications of Creativity and Sometimes the Girl, a guest post by author Jennifer Mason-Black

The Big Why: The Complications of Creativity and Sometimes the Girl, a guest post by author Jennifer Mason-Black

Every bookshelf is a haunted place. Not in the door-creaking-at-night-and-lights-flickering way. I have no doubt that there are many libraries thick with specters, but those ghosts are bound by place and history. No, I’m thinking of the books left off the shelves, those never bought, never noticed, never read. More than that—the books written that never survived the publishing gauntlet, the stories whose writers poured themselves into them, hear…