{"id":979425,"date":"2026-06-25T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?p=979425"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:04:39","slug":"why-its-never-too-late-to-start-writing-rebecca-hardys-path-to-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/why-its-never-too-late-to-start-writing-rebecca-hardys-path-to-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it&#8217;s never too late to start writing: Rebecca Hardy&#8217;s path to publication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 2 July this year, my debut novel&nbsp;<em>The Summer We Lied<\/em>&nbsp;will be released into the world. Less than a month before that, I turned fifty. Fifty!?&nbsp;What on earth&nbsp;have I been doing with my time, you may well ask.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often wonder that myself when I see all the wonderful young writers&nbsp;out&nbsp;there, working&nbsp;full time&nbsp;and&nbsp;wrestling&nbsp;small&nbsp;children&nbsp;to&nbsp;and from school&nbsp;or nursery,&nbsp;yet&nbsp;still somehow&nbsp;managing&nbsp;to polish a manuscript worthy enough of publication.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what&nbsp;I\u2019ve&nbsp;realised,&nbsp;over the last five years, is that we all come to writing on our own terms. For some of us that&nbsp;may&nbsp;be&nbsp;straight out of school or university. For others \u2013 like me \u2013 it might&nbsp;just take that&nbsp;little&nbsp;bit&nbsp;longer,&nbsp;and&nbsp;require&nbsp;a&nbsp;little more help.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, after moving house and postcode, I took a break from&nbsp;teaching&nbsp;to try and&nbsp;finally&nbsp;do what&nbsp;I\u2019d&nbsp;always said I wanted to do:&nbsp;write&nbsp;a book.&nbsp;By that stage,&nbsp;I had several notebooks full of&nbsp;ideas, a drawer full of half-finished manuscripts, but nothing&nbsp;I\u2019d&nbsp;ever seen through to completion. Work got in the way, or having a child got in the way, or divorce got in the way. Life, in general, provided&nbsp;a plethora of excuses and reasons as to why I&nbsp;couldn\u2019t&nbsp;just&nbsp;sit down and&nbsp;write&nbsp;a book.&nbsp;In reality,&nbsp;the&nbsp;only thing holding me back was myself.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With no more excuses to be found,&nbsp;I sat down, got to work, and&nbsp;within a year had&nbsp;finished a manuscript that was&nbsp;perhaps&nbsp;less&nbsp;a novel than&nbsp;it was&nbsp;a jumble of ideas and genres.&nbsp;I\u2019d&nbsp;proved to myself I could write 100,000 words, but I&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;needed&nbsp;help to take it to the next stage.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, at the end of 2022,&nbsp;I had an idea for a new novel that&nbsp;really&nbsp;excited me. It fit the kind of genre of books I liked to read&nbsp;(crime thriller)&nbsp;and&nbsp;also&nbsp;felt cinematic in its sprawl. I had the characters, the stepping stones of a plot, but still no real clue how to hang it all together.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After searching online for some available courses,&nbsp;I found&nbsp;the&nbsp;Jericho Writers&nbsp;website&nbsp;and applied for a place on their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/creative-writing-courses\/ultimate-novel-writing-programme\/\"><strong>Ultimate Novel Writing&nbsp;Programme<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp;I was thrilled to&nbsp;be&nbsp;accepted onto&nbsp;the&nbsp;2023&nbsp;Spring\/Summer course and put everything I could into getting the most out of the amazing resources available. Over the months that followed &#8211; with feedback from my&nbsp;brilliant&nbsp;tutor, Holly Seddon, along with an equally fabulous peer group of fellow writers &#8211; I finished a manuscript that I felt confident enough to send out on submission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back at the start of my writing journey,&nbsp;I\u2019d&nbsp;attended an online event led by Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment, which was hugely insightful. Juliet seemed&nbsp;genuinely passionate about her role as an agent, and I decided to send the opening of my completed novel to her first, just to test the water.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remarkably, Juliet requested my full manuscript and, after a couple of weeks of discussions about how better to structure the novel, signed me as a client. I&nbsp;couldn\u2019t&nbsp;have been more thrilled, but the work only increased from there. It took three or four&nbsp;more&nbsp;iterations to get the story right;&nbsp;restructuring and reshaping,&nbsp;rewriting&nbsp;and editing. All the way through this period, I had Holly at the end of an email offering advice and cheering me on, and I had my UNWP fellow writers&nbsp;on&nbsp;WhatsApp&nbsp;and Zooms keeping me sane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took months,&nbsp;but by the June of 2025&nbsp;it&nbsp;was&nbsp;ready&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;sent&nbsp;out to&nbsp;Juliet\u2019s&nbsp;list of editors.&nbsp;\u2018Gird your loins,\u2019 she told me. \u2018This bit can be painful.\u2019&nbsp;I duly girded&nbsp;. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;then came the email:&nbsp;Alison Hennessey, at Bloomsbury\u2019s Raven Books was taking it to acquisitions!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first person I texted was Holly&nbsp;\u2013 I knew she\u2019d be just as thrilled as I&nbsp;was, and&nbsp;would also be there to offer me a steadying word if needed&nbsp;\u2013 then I texted my UNWP WhatsApp group to&nbsp;share the&nbsp;news:&nbsp;<em>Shhh, don\u2019t tell anyone &#8211;&nbsp;a two-book deal!<\/em>&nbsp;An absolute dream,&nbsp;and&nbsp;I signed without any hesitation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as before, the work&nbsp;didn\u2019t&nbsp;stop there. More edits,&nbsp;and a full year later, the finished, physical book is now in my hands at last.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels both incredible and terrifying, when&nbsp;finally&nbsp;it happens. But I like to hope that &#8211; even at fifty &#8211;&nbsp;I\u2019m&nbsp;just getting started.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My top tips for aspiring authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Embrace feedback<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Get&nbsp;as much feedback on your ideas and writing as possible, whether online or in person.&nbsp;I\u2019ve&nbsp;found everyone&nbsp;at Jericho Writers&nbsp;to be incredibly generous with their time and thoughtful&nbsp;in&nbsp;their responses. We are all learners in the beginning and finding a group to inspire and cheer you on can make all the difference.&nbsp;I&nbsp;couldn\u2019t&nbsp;be without my UNWP&nbsp;alumni&nbsp;group&nbsp;and we still Zoom&nbsp;almost every&nbsp;month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Brace yourself for rejection &#8211; but see it as useful, too<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Be prepared for&nbsp;rejection but&nbsp;also&nbsp;be ready to&nbsp;learn from it. If&nbsp;you&nbsp;get constructive feedback from&nbsp;agents who&nbsp;seem to be&nbsp;picking up the same issues or suggesting similar solutions,&nbsp;be open to their suggestions. Rewriting and revising your manuscript&nbsp;is&nbsp;all part of the process and if&nbsp;you\u2019re&nbsp;rigid in your thinking, you&nbsp;maybe limiting&nbsp;your story\u2019s potential without realising.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Keep on keeping on<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t&nbsp;stop at the first hurdle. I know everyone says that feedback is subjective&nbsp;but&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;true! You only need one&nbsp;<em>yes<\/em>&nbsp;for the project to begin its journey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. There&#8217;s no such thing as &#8216;too late&#8217;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, remember there is no age limit on creativity.&nbsp;However old you are when you&nbsp;come to&nbsp;writing, or whatever your situation, all you can do is try. Even the humblest, messiest first draft has potential if you are willing to keep working at it.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A law graduate and English teacher for almost twenty years, Rebecca Hardy is is currently taking a career break to pursue her love of writing. She lives in East Sussex, with her wife and teenage son, in amongst the fields and hills where her novel begins. A place which is, thankfully, far more tranquil in real life than on the page.\u00a0Rebecca is a graduate of the Jericho Writers Ultimate Novel Writing Programme, and her novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B0G5XKXG2Z\/?bestFormat=true&amp;k=the%20summer%20we%20lied%20rebecca%20hardy&amp;ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-bk-ww_k1_1_13_de&amp;crid=1ONNFY2KOAH8I&amp;sprefix=rebecca%20hardy\"><em>The Summer We Lied<\/em><\/a> releases on 2 July.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Want to find out more about the Ultimate Novel Writing Programme or apply for the next course? <a href=\"https:\/\/zfrmz.eu\/ZREOGPEGEHSkWrnVxEgK\">Let us know<\/a> and we&#8217;ll send some helpful information direct to your inbox.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 July this year, my debut novel&nbsp;The Summer We Lied&nbsp;will be released into the world. Less than a month before that, I turned fifty. 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