Murry wrote several book, film, and museum reviews and dreamed of creating her own children's book. Over the years, Meg couldn't finish a book, so she decided to take a course at Arbor Community College called: Fiction Writing for the Youth Market, How to Get Started, taught by Tess Whatsit. (R. 31). Whatsit taught at Arbor Community College from 2004 to 2015 and taught at Meg Murry for eight weeks from mid-January 2015 to mid-March 2015. (R. 18). Concurrently, Tess Whatsit was an editor at Atheneum Books for Young Readers from around 1987 until 2015, when she opened her book publisher, Watermark Books, an author-publisher liaison company, of which she is founder and president . (R..