If you are over 50, and despair about ever getting published, have a look at a piece that Tess Gerritsen wrote for Murderati, here.
Tess’s weblog is a really good place to look when you’re feeling discouragede. She’s been in the business for a long time, and she has some of the best advice for writers available on the web. Here’s another one of her posts that I particularly like.
You've stumbled across my official website and landed on the front page of my weblog.My name is Rosina Lippi. I'm a former academic and tenured university professor, writing full time since 2000. Under the pen name Sara Donati I am the author of the Wilderness series, six historical novels that follow the fortunes of a group of families living in upstate New York from about 1792-1825. A new series based on later generations of the same families was launched September 1, 2015 with The Gilded Hour. The next volume in the new series, Where the Light Enters, was released in 2019.
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Thank you for this Rosina, I needed the encouragement, – It’s almost as though you had read my mind. Recently, with my 50th only a year and a bit away, I have been thinking just that – that I had “missed the boat” so to speak and allowed my dream to slip on by.
Maybe not. I will continue with renewed vigour after reading this blog.