How Deep?
BRIEN CROTHERS

What’s the depth of your literary (or any) mastery? 

This question, of course, leads us on an introspective journey, more rhetorical than realistic. I dream of wielding my pen with the grace and poise of Gabriel Garc��a Marquez. Or perhaps, mirroring the prolific nature of, say, a James Patterson. 

In the happy place of my mind, my stories would captivate readers who like novels from a couple of my favorites, Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Donnelly. But reality loves...