When did you first start writing?
The first piece I can remember writing was when I was eight years old. It was an essay about the importance of saving the whales. I shared it with my family and they seemed quite impressed that I was so aware of the situation at that age.
I always wrote stories, though. I can't honestly remember the first one, but I remember entertaining myself with stories I would write in school when I'd finished my assignments in class and didn't feel like drawing to pass the time. They were epic stories, covering all the things I imagined and/or playacted when playing outside (I was a kid, after all).
Looking back, it was a fairly foregone conclusion that I was going to be a writer. My head was always in the clouds and my pen was always on paper, crafting stories to entertain myself with later on.
What motivated you to become an indie author?
When my first publisher, a small start-up press in London, went belly-up a couple of months after releasing my first novel, I took it upon myself to reissue Ask Me if I'm Happy. Other publishers either weren't very interested, or had terms I couldn't get on with in their contracts, so I opted to do it myself.
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