My writing career has been fairly spotty. I’ve been writing - and trying to sell my writing - since I was a literal child. When I was about 9 years old I wrote a “novel” (I think it was probably around 12,000 words long - impressive for a 9 year old, but not a novel) that I’ve long since lost, which my mum helped me submit to Penguin. Obviously Penguin don’t take unagented submissions, and certainly not from children, but neither of us knew that in the 1990s. We packed a short manus...
