Shells Chats with author Jeremy Shipp

At what precise moment did you say to yourself, 'I'm an author and I'm going to write stories and that's all there is to it'? I wrote my first novel when I was 13, but I don't think I truly thought of myself as an author until I was 18. That's when I started sending out my work to publishers. That's also when I started wearing a spork necklace, which had nothing to do with my writing career, so