People ask me all the time, “How did you get published?” “What should I do to get published?” I finally created a page on my website about the business of writing. The one thing it fails to mention is the element of magic that I can never explain–why and how an editor hears about you or notices you, or why some books turn into instant homeruns, or how an otherwise perfectly normal life becomes the crucible for creative material that other people actually want to read. This is where God comes in, the mysterious Stage Manager who seems to know exactly when to raise the curtain. There it is now: the backstage whispering, the quiet prompts about the next line, the next move. Can you hear it?