A few times, she heard the sounds of the stairs creaking, as he tried to get online unnoticed. But over time, she says, he became more willing to unplug. Still, Rainey says that sometimes she gets up in the night and passes his bedroom to see whether the lights are on.
At the sound of her approach, his room goes dark.
“It’s this kind of silent game we play,” she says. “I know he’s staying up too late sometimes, and he knows, too.”
” —Digital diversions leave teens, parents sleep-deprivedTo be fair; of the 15 letters she wrote and sent to literary agencies, 5 went unanswered, nine rejected and one sent a positive response, thus winning this dubious jackpot.
I’m not saying I like Twilight (because I don’t) but
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was rejected by a dozen publishers, including biggies like Penguin and HarperCollins. Bloomsbury, a small London publisher, only took it on at the behest of the CEO’s eight-year old daughter, who begged her father to print the book. http://exm.nr/95avUP
