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Never too late

I have often asked myself the question as to whether beginning a writing career in my 50s was better than beginning a writing career in my 20s. The answer, for me, is most definitely, yes! Initially, when my first novel, was taken up by my agent and consequently published in 2018, I kicked myself for not writing it earlier. After all, I knew the plot for this book after waking from a nightmarish

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