![]() ![]() So I just didn't fit anywhere, even though I knew instinctively that the world of readership was ready for a fresh outlook - it just wasn't ready for my mix-up of genres. Most of them were a mix of sci-fi, fantasy, romance,Īncient history, or mythology. This meant that none of my books slotted easily into accepted genres. Of course I went through the usual hopeful phase of all new authors, implicitly following the rules, sending to only one publisher at a time, waiting a decent interval, always sending a SAE, and thereby collectingĮnough rejection slips to wallpaper my house.Īfter doing a short story course, I quickly learned what was wrong with me. Most of these are still scribbled in notebooks, stuck in the loft acquiringĬobwebs. Undaunted and still driven, I proceeded to write 5 novels between 19, only one of which has ever been published (Bobby's Girl), or even typed. ![]() ![]() ![]() I actually typed the word: fierce 12 times on the first page! My vocabulary was that limited and I was sooo out of practice. The least ~ full of typos and bad grammar. The library at the age of 6 and read myself silly.Īt first it was poetry I never, ever thought I could write stories, apart from the odd essay in school, until 1987 when, suddenly inspired by my own children, I decided to write a book. I always wanted to write, ever since I first learned to do it, by which time I joined I was born in June 1946, one of the first 'Baby Boomers'. ![]()
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