The Mentor

The Mentor
by Lee Matthew Goldberg

Kyle is an editor at a publishing house and he has recently signed a new author that appears will be a quite a success.  The new author already has a large advance and has people interested in making a movie about her book.  This success puts Kyle at the center of attention and perks the interest of his old professor.

William, his professor, approaches him about a book he is writing.  Kyle is happy to look at the book, thinking it will be really good as William was his favorite teacher back in the day.  Soon Kyle finds out the book is both horribly written but the content is also very disturbing.  

Kyle doesn't want to publish the disturbing book and things get weird then.  William is creepy and disturbing.  He is obsessed with getting his book published and starts stalking Kyle.

This book was a little strange, but then the William character was supposed to be a bit odd.  I thought it was interesting that Kyle's author he signed had a huge bonus received after only having 100 pages written.  I don't know how the publishing world works, but that seemed like a big chunk of change for something that's only partially done.