When her first novel was rejected by publishers after six long years of writing, Heather McElhatton sat down and tried to figure out where “the train jumped the tracks.” She began diagramming her life’s choices on a discarded 6-by-10 hunk of linoleum.
“I wasn’t laying out the skeleton of a book or the structure of a book. I was literally drinking a giant bottle of wine and trying to figure out where I’d gone wrong and what I should have done,” McElhatton recalls.
But the result was “Pretty Little Mistakes,” her hit debut book. Billed as a “do-over novel,” it allows readers to choose which plot lines to follow to one of more than 150 endings. Already in its seventh printing since being published in May, “Pretty Little Mistakes” has 50,000 copies in print. Article continued here.
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Yeah.
I just found a small stack of choose your own adventure books in a box of crap my mom left at my house last week. She brings a couple new boxes each visit and just leaves them.