Steve B Howard
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

I’d forgotten about the old cell phone novels (been in Japan since 2003). I remember there was one written by a seventeen year old girl that sold 1.5 million copies and got turned into a movie I think. It was something about a teen romance between a wolf boy and a high school girl I think. I read a little bit of the English translation and thought to myself, “Well, after spending tens of thousands of dollars on an English degree, spending over a decade slogging way as an unsuccessful novelist and short story writer, should I throw myself in front of a train, jump off my balcony, or just slit my wrists? Just kidding of course, but I did scream a little bit and mope around my apartment for a few days cursing the literary Gods, lol.

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    Steve B Howard

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    A spewer of sometimes interesting sounding gibberish, a semi-pro comedian, and a teacher in Japan. https://amzn.to/2RDCT0Y (stevenbhow@gmail.com)