
For the past eight years I've had a ritual, every new bookshop I go in, I find the place on the shelves for the W authors. I take a picture of where my book would go. I've done this while I was writing my first draft, while I was learning how to edit, while I was pitching to agents, while I was getting rejections, or worse, no response at all. I kept doing it while I entered competitions, after I found out I'd won the Good Housekeeping novel competition, after I signed my contract...
Published on December 23, 2019 02:00