If you’re anything like me, you gobble up stories of successful novelists who started off on the back foot, battling rejections from agents then publishers, enduring disappointing novel performance, maybe even taking a career break until WHAM! They wrote ‘that’ book, got ‘that’ deal, were shortlisted for ‘that’ prize and suddenly became A Name.
Let’s be honest – the worse the journey, the better the story.
At various times in my authoring life, I’ve thought to
