I’m opening my blog for guest posts, so other authors can tell the tales of how they first got published. Today I have Anna Jacobs. Since her first acceptance, she’s had over 70 novels published! But it always starts with one. Take it away Anna. My first book published wasn’t a novel; it was a story book. I was a …
An Elephant, a Tiger and Five Minutes of Fame
Teena Raffa-Mulligan is one of my critique group members and has been writing for decades. I asked her to write her call story today and you can find it below. I remember having her Stranger Danger book read to me in primary school! When I went to a community policing talk for parents at my children’s primary school in 1980, …
Survivor: Submission Island – My call story
As an aspiring author I used to love reading about how other authors got ‘The Call’ – that phone call or email when a publisher tells you they want to buy your book. The one thing I learnt reading all of these stories is that the path to publication can be so different. Mine was no exception. In 2013 the …
