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Encouraged by my relative success in the People's Novelist competition, I quickly penned another book which I would enter in the same competition the following year. I took the view that what might be termed women's fiction was the dominant genre and so I came up with 'The Guillemot Club', a story loosely based on my mother's experiences as a trailblazing deep-sea angler in the sixties and seventies.
It had all the ingredients of a sure fire hit: romance, humour, triumph over adversity and I have to say I was pleased with the result. There was, of course, a snag. It had nothing to do with the quality of the book or the content and rather more to do with the fact that the competition for which it was being written was not being held.
Yes, the Alan Titchmarsh Show People's Novelist competition had been a never to be repeated one-off.
Still, I had created one of my favourite books so I began the process of hawking it around various agents who would obviously want to sign me up.
When I say 'obviously', what I mean is, it was obvious to me.
It had all the ingredients of a sure fire hit: romance, humour, triumph over adversity and I have to say I was pleased with the result. There was, of course, a snag. It had nothing to do with the quality of the book or the content and rather more to do with the fact that the competition for which it was being written was not being held.
Yes, the Alan Titchmarsh Show People's Novelist competition had been a never to be repeated one-off.
Still, I had created one of my favourite books so I began the process of hawking it around various agents who would obviously want to sign me up.
When I say 'obviously', what I mean is, it was obvious to me.
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