Scott Kershaw
‘There remain some daunting misconceptions regarding the fabled requirements for getting published. Questions I’m often asked concern industry traditions, education and ‘There upbringing. For what it’s worth, I learned the alphabet from Sesame Street on a portable television in Grimsby, and I used that same alphabet to write my novel, The Game. That’s the short version.
‘As a child I wanted to write, but as an adolescent, due to my own poor choices, my predicted top school grades turned out to be a meagre handful of nothing much, and when I tried college I was, oxymoronically, permanently kicked out on several occasions. What followed were many jobs of the beer pouring, litter picking, vomit mopping varieties, all punctuated by hangovers, sirens and
