![]() ![]() ![]() Then I wrote Regnen, my first YA novel – and sent it to an old friend of an old friend who worked at a publishers. I wrote poems and short stories and film and TV scripts. long story cut short: I stopped writing, then I started again. Who discovered you? (Did you contact publishing houses? How was the process?)Īh. ![]() I didn’t know of any route other than through education, so I stopped. You can imagine anything!īut I stopped writing when I discovered – at age 16 – that I couldn’t do creative writing at A-Level (the next exam step). You can ‘be’ anyone, anywhere you can imagine yourself into a world that’s better than yours – or worse. I didn’t have a happy childhood, but in stories – reading or writing – you can escape. I’ve been writing since I was a kid, but got serious about it when I was a teen. How long have you been writing? And what started it? it’s just that the way I grew up (relatively poor, quite working class, school pretty bad at that time) meant I had no idea how people became authors. When did you know that you wanted to become an author?įrom childhood, I think. Is that fun enough? I can also tap dance. I really admire and am fascinated by expertise. ![]() I love learning new things – preferably from another human being. I get angry emails about the treatment of pets in Regnen, but I wept over my keyboard writing that stuff! (My first pet was a guinea-pig, my second a hamster. In many ways I’m a very serious, anxious kind of person, but I also really know how to laugh. Mention three fun facts that your fans maybe don’t know about you. ![]()
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