I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.
My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.