Because of the Office of Letters and Light, I am a published author today. I'd been a writer all my life, but even with a Masters in writing had never managed to finish a novel before National Novel Writing Month in 2006. The novel I wrote then went on to sell to HarperCollins in a three book deal, and my life has been forever changed by what the OLL helped me to realize: That I am not only a writer, but a working one. I've participated every year since then, and in two weeks, the book I wrote for NaNo in 2008 will be released to bookstore shelves. I owe this success directly to OLL, and I can't say enough about them.