2. Bloodied but still standing

1. 

   04/10/2016

   11. Out in the big wide world

2. 

   11/11/2015

   10. Party Time!

3. 

   09/12/2015

   9. It's here!

4. 

   07/25/2015

   8. Where will it go?

5. 

   07/21/2015

   7. Next step: get it out there

6. 

   07/19/2015

   6. Writing and rewriting

7. 

   07/15/2015

   5. Writing in general

8. 

   07/14/2015

   4. Root cause analysis

9. 

   07/13/2015

   3. The dark years, and encouragement from Mr Jones

10. 

    07/05/2015

    1. Taking the plunge and meeting early critics

‘But what made you think you could do it?’ I hear you ask. ‘Isn’t it true that half the world thinks they have a book inside them, but only one in a hundred starts a novel, and of those one in a hundred get finished, and of those only one in a hundred get published? I mean, what’s so special about you?’ It’s a good question, and one I asked myself a lot after the piercing, if clumsily expressed, sentiment of she who would never be my agent. (Although to her credit, she did suggest that the

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