Okay. This is it...The publishing world has changed.  A lot.  Skip this little piece of advice and you could kick yourself for decades.  Because once your book is out there, it's out there.  Even if you pull it from Amazon, chances are Goodreads still has it on file and well, if your name is mud, there's no un-doing it.

So what's my advice to teens publishing a book?

Use a pen name. 
Seriously?Yup.  And here's why.

Let's say you spend your high school writing career crafting an epic trilogy.  Reg...