Recently, I organised an event called ‘Pages, Plots, and Publishing’, bringing together a few of my fellow Isle of Wight writers to chat about our experiences in the publishing world. Although there are long-standing and ‘traditional’ ways of getting into this industry, it is very rare that a writer follows the same journey, and this panel really showed that. We were a mix of traditionally published authors, self-published, indie and hybrid, some of us agented, some of us not – and each of us had a different insight.

That panel inspired this blog post. I thought I would write a little bit about how I came to be a traditionally published agented author, and how I have navigated the bewildering, scary but rewarding world of publishing.

I am always willing to chat about these things so please post any questions below or drop me an email (on my Contact page) or message me on social media!