In addition to submitting my work to agents in the (probably futile) hope of eventually getting a publishing deal through that route, I’ve sent my novels to a handful of competitions. The good thing about competitions is that you know that there is an actual possibility of getting published; that one person out of all… Read More
Month: July 2014
The first million is the hardest
They say the first million is the hardest. They’re talking about money, of course, but I imagine it’s the same with wordcount. In which case, I’m about a quarter of the way to my first million. Earlier this week, I finished the first draft of The Wreck of the Argyll, my children’s novel set in… Read More