Inspector 9: Seasons 1 & 2
Inspector 9 is a ten-episode children's audiobook series features five-year-old Miles Fenby, a magic bunk bed, and a tiny man named Inspector 9. (It's not as creepy as that last sentence just made it sound.) Imagining the world through the eyes of a first grader was not as daunting as I feared, which might say more about the author's maturity than anything else.
Lessons My Hair Has Taught Me
I was feeling pretty good about having one of my short stories selected from more than 5000 submissions to be awarded the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award. Then, while waiting for my flight home from the awards ceremony, I watched at least six people purchase the Sunday edition of the paper, remove the literary supplement in which my winning story was published, and toss it with the rest of the Sunday circulars into the trash.
