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Once you start telling people you’re an author, you occasionally run across those who will casually diminish that or the value of your stories.

“Oh, if I had more time, I could be too.”

“Yeah, but you write romance.”

“Do you actually make money at it?”

“Oh, I have a great idea for a story…something you should write.”

For all those people, I’ve met far more who are wonderfully supportive, but I bring this up because so often the value of the stories we write are seen as a quirky hobby that...