Jilly Paddock's Blog: Firebird and Brimstone, page 2
March 14, 2012
Hello!
Just signed up as a Goodreads author, so a little introduction is in order.
I've been secretly scribbling away since my early teens, only sharing what I wrote with a couple of good friends. I used to write in biro in cheap exercise books, then moved to higher quality lined paper when I could afford it. Bought an electric typewriter to transcribe the manuscripts - my mother hated the noise! - and then an Amstrad word-processor in the 80s. I needed a bank loan to afford it! I still think that Locoscript was the best word processing programme ever, even if the PCW was so slow in starting that you could make a cup of tea in the time it took to boot up.
I did the submissions thing in the 90s and even had an agent for a while, but failed to place the novel. I sold a couple of short stories to magazines and won a few quid in competition prizes, but just stuck to the day-job and didn't consider myself a proper writer.
Now I write on a PC in WordPerfect. I've retired, so I've decided to indulge my long-held ambition to be a real author and I'm self-publishing on Kindle. My first two novellas, No Earthly Shore and Spook/Spirit/Stone did well in their free promotions with 3-400 downloads each and several good reviews. They continue to sell slowly. I plan to add a novel, the first in my main series, and a collection of short S-F and fantasy stories soon.
I've been secretly scribbling away since my early teens, only sharing what I wrote with a couple of good friends. I used to write in biro in cheap exercise books, then moved to higher quality lined paper when I could afford it. Bought an electric typewriter to transcribe the manuscripts - my mother hated the noise! - and then an Amstrad word-processor in the 80s. I needed a bank loan to afford it! I still think that Locoscript was the best word processing programme ever, even if the PCW was so slow in starting that you could make a cup of tea in the time it took to boot up.
I did the submissions thing in the 90s and even had an agent for a while, but failed to place the novel. I sold a couple of short stories to magazines and won a few quid in competition prizes, but just stuck to the day-job and didn't consider myself a proper writer.
Now I write on a PC in WordPerfect. I've retired, so I've decided to indulge my long-held ambition to be a real author and I'm self-publishing on Kindle. My first two novellas, No Earthly Shore and Spook/Spirit/Stone did well in their free promotions with 3-400 downloads each and several good reviews. They continue to sell slowly. I plan to add a novel, the first in my main series, and a collection of short S-F and fantasy stories soon.
Firebird and Brimstone
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