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My Writing Journey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My debut novel, Someone Else\u2019s Baby<\/em> was published by Hera Books on 25 July 2019. It won \u2018Best Opening Chapter\u2019 at the Festival of Writing in 2017, so it feels very special to be asked by Jericho Writers to blog about my publication journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been writing on and off ever since I first picked up a pencil, but it wasn\u2019t until thirteen years ago that I took my writing more seriously and applied to do a part-time MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. My second child was only two and it meant driving to and from Cambridgeshire once a week, but I was determined to do it. Three years later, in 2009, I graduated with my first completed novel. But I needed a break from that book, and I wasn\u2019t ready to start approaching agents, so I wrote another novel whilst being mentored on the Gold Dust scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2012 I heard about the Festival of Writing<\/a> and decided to go, partly to meet my new Twitter friends<\/a>, Amanda Saint and Isabel Costello and partly to see if there was any interest in my second novel. I came away from the full weekend experience buzzing with everything I\u2019d learned in some of the best workshops I\u2019d ever been to, given by the now legendary, Debi Alper, Andrew Wille, Emma Darwin, Julie Cohen, Shelley Harris and Craig Taylor. I made lots of new friends, but there was no interest from agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went home and dug out my first novel and worked on it again. In 2014, I went back to the Festival of Writing and this time three agents asked to see the full manuscript. Despite the positive comments, the rejections came in. After a further edit<\/a>, I took it back in 2015 and again more agents were interested, but no offers of representation followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I skipped the Festival the following year and started work on a new novel, but in October 2016, another idea came to me while I was watching a FoW friend on a TV show. Another guest, a surrogate and the couple she was having the baby for, took my interest. The surrogate\u2019s pregnancy was fraught with problems, not what she\u2019d expected at all and to me she seemed incredibly na\u00efve to think she\u2019d breeze through the experience. I wondered how well she really knew this couple who were promising to involve her in their baby\u2019s future. What obligation did they really have to this woman once they\u2019d paid her? I had so many questions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

For the next two months I researched my idea as much as I could and on 1 January 2017, I started writing my messy \u2018zero\u2019 draft by hand. Four months later, my third novel was completed. I typed and polished the beginning and sent it out to competitions, including the Festival of Writing, to gauge the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I arrived at the Festival of Writing a couple of months later, not knowing that my novel was on the shortlists for the Best Opening Chapter and Perfect Pitch competitions, because they\u2019d forgotten to send out the email! So it was a shock to be called up on stage and even more of a shock to win Best Opening Chapter and be the runner up for the Perfect Pitch. I was asked to read out my prologue and it received a fantastic response. A flurry of agents contacted me on the night and over the following days, but my manuscript wasn\u2019t quite ready. A couple of agents were prepared to wait for the next edit but one, Jo Bell at Bell Lomax Moreton, who I\u2019d subbed my first novel to a year before, asked to meet me and to see my second novel, which was in a more publishable state. She loved that novel even more! When she offered to represent me, it was an easy decision because she loved my writing and all my novel ideas. I felt at ease in her company as soon as I met her. Although Jo isn\u2019t an agent who edits, she offered insightful suggestions, as did her assistant. A few writer friends read it for me and I took on board their helpful and detailed comments in the final edit.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sending my novel out to editors was a drawn out and painful experience. Weekly rejections for months is not something I was prepared for. My novel received mostly positive feedback but there were no offers from traditional publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believed in my novel and so did Jo. By this point it had won and been listed in eight competitions. I\u2019d been told enough times that it was a unique take on surrogacy. I was determined to keep going so I worked on it again. This time Jo sent it out to a few digital publishers and an offer to publish quickly came back from a big publisher\u2019s digital imprint. A few days later another offer came in from an established independent. While I was weighing them up, a third publisher, Hera Books contacted Jo. I loved reading their editor\u2019s response to my novel \u2013 the big reveal made her gasp! They were a new company, set up by Keshini Naidoo and Lindsay Mooney. I remembered feeling excited reading in the Bookseller about this dynamic, female-led publisher only a few months before. Their entrepreneurial spirit spoke to me (I founded and ran my own local magazine business while doing my MA and successfully sold it on four years later). I consulted my scribbled wish-list \u2013 Hera Books were at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I\u2019d heard from all three publishers, about their thoughts on how I could edit and improve my novel, I knew for certain that Hera was the right choice for me. Keshini completely understood the true story I was trying to tell. She did an incredible job in helping me improve my manuscript through a round of structural edits followed by line edits. With her expert guidance, I worked as hard as I could to make Someone Else\u2019s Baby<\/em> the best book it could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Festival of Writing has been such an important part of my journey to publication. Each time I went, I used the festival dates as deadlines to finish whichever novel I was working on. The workshops and agent one-to-ones were always helpful, relaxed and friendly. It\u2019s an incredible experience to be in a room with so many writers, all at different stages \u2013 people who really understand the ups and downs<\/a> of trying to break into the business. Hats off to Harry Bingham and his team of dedicated organisers and tutors who give everything to make the process of building writers\u2019 skills and knowledge enjoyable and accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m back working on the novel I put aside to write Someone Else\u2019s Baby<\/em>. I was stuck, not sure how the story could develop and what the ending would be, but it worked itself out as I wrote the first draft in a month using NanoWriMo (National Write a Novel in a Month). Writing never ceases to delight and surprise me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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