Do you remember the first story you wrote?
Yes, very much so. It was about a young girl discovering secrets that took her to Gabon in Africa. I still remember one scene; it was in an old style English library with Chesterfield furniture and with books from floor to ceiling, it was night and thunderstorm filled the huge windows covering an entire wall from floor to ceiling. Now I get to think about it, not the same room but with many similarities appears in my novel Devil's Touch some 30 years later. Some inner images are just hard to let go of.
Did you write other novels at that time?
Yes, I did. In all I wrote 5 novels from I was 16 to I was 20, including a fantasy novel inspired by J. R. R. Tolkin and the film Ladyhawke with Michelle Pfeiffer. But times were different back then and I had less patience. The publisher want me to edit the novel, I took it as a rejection. Thinking back maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t. Well, I will never know.
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