Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.
I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'
Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.