Point Crime: Publish Or Die

Here is my story, 'Publish Or Die'. Reject it at your peril . . ."

Before Calico starts her job at Prairie Books, she thinks publishing's really glamorous. After her first week, she thinks she should be getting paid danger money. Exploding packages, menacing letters, arson . . . Whoever said books were boring?

But it's the black-enveloped letters from Nemesis that really scare her. What if 'Publish Or Die' is a real threat? And Nemesis's book - all about the death of an editor - what if it comes true? It looks like Calico's about to find out just how much art mirrors life . . . and death . . .