CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY TO PUBLICATION?
I guess you’d call me a late bloomer! I’m from a workingclass background and though I don’t remember it being said overtly, being a writer was not for the likes of me. Those attitudes are much more insidious, but I think they still exist. I trained as a nurse, then much later did a degree in illustration but I was always more interested in the story than the artwork.
Finally, at 50-ish I accepted what I’d known deepdown all along and started writing. I joined SCBWI and Golden Egg, did courses at Edinburgh University and was embarrassingly optimistic about publication. In hindsight, that naïve optimism kept me
