‘Twenty years elapsed between my selling my first short story to The People’s Friend in 1996 and finding commercial success. In that time, I published 150 or more short stories, several magazine serials, eight novels, a writing guide, a host of columns (some of them for Writing Magazine) and writing courses. For several years I had an agent, and she’s a wonderful, successful woman. But our partnership resulted in only modest success.
‘Then, after years of not being represented, I was introduced to Juliet Pickering of Blake Friedmann Literary Agency and we clicked.