5/23/2023 0 Comments Author of long way down![]() ![]() ![]() When Reynolds hesitated, Myers recommended he read a book by his father, the children’s book author Walter Dean Myers, for inspiration. One day, his friend Christopher Myers visited him at the Rag & Bone store he was managing and encouraged him to start writing again. Reynolds settled into a career in retail, and tried three times to get into M.F.A. After graduating from the University of Maryland in 2005, they moved to New York and tried to slip it to security guards at publishing houses, hoping it would wind up in an editor’s hands. He described his first attempts at getting published as straight out of a rapper’s playbook: cut a demo, then “run into a record company or you find Russell Simmons’s limousine and you throw it in the car.” For him, the demo was a book he and his college roommate had self-published. ![]() Reynolds, who grew up in Oxon Hill, Md., just outside Washington, credits his success to “sheer hustling.” It didn’t happen right away. ![]()
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