Positivity: 13 Year-Old’s ‘Novel’ Achievement
From the Miami Herald (HT DailyGood e-mail):
Posted on Sat, May. 05, 2007
Nancy Yi Fan was too young to know she was breaking every rule in the book when she e-mailed her first manuscript directly to the president and CEO of HarperCollins.
”I was being quite bold thinking I had nothing to lose,” says Nancy, now an eighth-grader. ‘I thought, `Maybe she will give me some advice.’ ”
Instead the CEO, Jane Friedman, gave her a contract, passing Fan’s allegorical story about warring avian factions and their quest for peace to her children’s division, which published Swordbird (HarperCollins, $15.99, ages 8-12) this spring.
Now, Fan, 13, is seeing her name on The New York Times bestseller list.
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