When I wrote my first book, Survival of the Prettiest, I dreamed about it becoming a New York Times Bestseller. After all, how could it NOT?! The work I was doing was EXACTLY the kind of thing I needed when I was younger, and in my experience of working with young girls, exactly what they need too. I was filling in a gap - it was just supply and demand, and made sense!

Oh, Ashley. Always so relentlessly optimistic and incessantly hopeful and yes, even naive.

And then I published the book. And overwhelmingly, nothing dramatically changed overnight. In truth, sales did well the first month, but they werent even close to what I was hoping. And after the first month, sales only stagnated. This month, Ive sold exactly 9 copies. Thats it.