In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
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 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.
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.