Tag: getting published

WRITING MY FIRST HEALTH BOOK (Oh Sugar!)

Writing a Book (Part 8): What happens when you’ve wanted to be an author all your life and you finally see a copy of your first published book?

Katherine Bassford

Today was a day much like any other EXCEPT for one remarkable thing: a nice chap from the editorial team presented me with a copy of my first ever published book Oh Sugar! So... what happens when you’ve wanted to be an author all your life and you see a printed copy of your book for the… Continue reading Writing a Book (Part 8): What happens when you’ve wanted to be an author all your life and you finally see a copy of your first published book?

Writing

How to be a children’s author

Katherine Bassford

Reading a book is easy. Writing one is slightly harder. (Guess which I excel at?!) So when I met Christine Hurst on the 30 Day Challenge earlier this year and discovered that she was a children’s author, she was instantly catapulted to god-like status in my eyes. Thankfully, her journey to being published has been… Continue reading How to be a children’s author

Famous writers

Writers who nearly didn’t get published: Stephen King

Katherine Bassford

In 1973 Stephen King was a teacher and an aspiring author.Alongside teaching high school English classes at HampdenAcademy, he wrote short stories which he sold to men’s magazines. In the evenings and weekends he worked on novels. And on Friday afternoons he “liked to get drunk.”Times were hard: he was driving a knackered car which… Continue reading Writers who nearly didn’t get published: Stephen King

Writing

The helicopters haven’t landed yet

Katherine Bassford

            OK, it's been a week since I sent off my manuscripts and, surprisingly, I have yet to wake up to see helicopters landing in my back garden with publishers leaping out waving multi-million pound contracts. Strange… I posted the manuscripts a week ago, last Friday... so they should have… Continue reading The helicopters haven’t landed yet