Polly Wants to Be a Writer, The Junior Authors Guide to Writing and Getting Published

~ I suck. I’ll never make it. I get writer’s block every ten seconds, every day, all the time. I should give up. I can’t even finish any of my own stories. I truly suck. I’m sorry for wasting your time. Maybe I’ll be a nurse like my mom or sell farm equipment like my dad. Whatever! I’m going to go home and tell Scrum I wish he was dead and get on with my life. ~

In the wake of her parents’ separation, Polly, a fifteen-year-old wannabe writer, comes face to face with her inner dragon, a truculent, impatient creature named Scrum who is a talented but frightful critic of her writing. With the help of Ms. Patience Whitford, a literary dragon trainer and leader of a global writing guild, Polly faces the almost impossible task of going beyond her good ideas to finish a publishable piece of fiction. All the while, Polly and Scrum become entangled in a dangerous scheme that threatens the future of every writer on the planet.