What it’s been like to start a writing career in my forties

In one word, humbling.

I am 49 years old, and my first novel, a speculative thriller called The Algorithm Will See You Now, published on 3/2/2023. I started writing it when I was 43.

When I was 46, I ventured into the online writing world, mainly via Twitter. A social media newbie (I know, I know, how can this be? But my 20s were consumed by medical training and then my 30s by starting and raising a family, and I just never felt the need—or time—in my life for social media), I found the #W...