I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.
There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.