Lessons from a debut author: things I wish I’d known a year ago

Lessons from a debut author: things I wish I’d known a year ago

My debut novel was published 6 months ago now, so I thought it was worth rounding up some of my thoughts about the process, in particular, some of the misconceptions I had and what I’ve learnt in the hope it might help others starting out.

I’m in a pretty good space at the moment and just found out Beat The Rain wasmy publisher’s best selling title of 2016 – but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had a fair few ‘long dark teatimes of th...