Share This post was written by Lily Braun-Arnold, author of The Last Bookstore on Earth. I wrote my debut novel, The Last Bookstore on Earth, three times. Okay, that’s not entirely true. In June 2020, I was obsessed with the apocalypse. It was the only type of media I consumed and thus the only thing I wanted to write about. And sure, I was 15 and had absolutely no idea how to write a coherent narrative, but that didn’t stop me. A month later, I had a finished manuscript in my hands.