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Oh the shock of it ... I ordered a copy of my teen novel, published 17 years ago, from my favourite Amazon seller. It arrived this morning with WITHDRAWN stamped on the inside pages ... ah me, poor little book, thrown out, rejected, not wanted ... the reason it means so much to me is that it took ELEVEN YEARS to sell that book. I retyped it X amount of times to keep the MS looking right before it found a home, with Bodley Head. You can imagine how pleased I was to be with such a prestigious publisher but they did nothing with it, despite the blurb ...
this novel, by a new writer with rare talent, is utterly compelling; it will leave you shaken.
Slight exaggeration there, methinks but still ... I am going to scan it and see if it can find a new home.
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One book I do not remember at all. Every page was a surprise. It is my book, my history plastered all over it but I don't remember it.
This one is special, this teen book, it is set in the row of cottages where I lived, based around the people who lived there and my family. My mother told me she recognised family members in it. My first ever published novel.
It came from a dream, I saw the little blonde girl standing at the entrance to the path which led to the back of the cottages (we all used the back rather than the front) and I knew she was waiting on a circus. I turned it into a freak show and it all spiralled from there.
I have every intention of selling it on. Query emails are out at the moment for all my educational and teen work.
The (missing) book, Man Of Her Dream, bothered me, it has been so completely wiped out of my mind. But then it was pointed out to me that I wrote it in 1994, when my marriage folded. Could have been that which did it.
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
I heard, Then Came The Liars, Then Came The Fools ...
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