Jenna Dreams of Money

Turns out I always wanted to make a pile of cash with my writing. Just like Charles Dickens.

If you had asked me the other day, "when did you decide to try to get published?" I would have said (without hesitating), "Fall of 2014."

At 31 years old, I had just lost a pregnancy at 7 weeks, and I was desperate to find some escapism. I’d been binge-reading a bunch of cozy mysteries my mother-in-law Sara had lent me. We were hanging out in the living …