After going twelve rounds with various mainstream p...

 After going twelve rounds with various mainstream publishers, I realised that I had to try something else. I saved all the rejection letters because most of them had very encouraging comments. If my mother had slapped me as gently when I was a child, it wouldn’t have hurt half as much. I even wrote to James Herbert once, and he was very kind.Now I am retired and with the help of Jay, my sister-in-law, (who is learning to be a ‘surfer’) I decided to dust off some of my manuscripts and try to achieve what has seemed to be impossible.This is very much a family affair, all hands (and minds) on deck. My granddaughter's Kathryn and Hayley are a whizz with graphics and have designed our blog and all the book covers. Jay has always edited and proofed my manuscripts over the years, and recently has managed to learn how to Twitter and blog. She is currently learning how to publish on Kindle, (as a starting point)I am a paper and pencil girl, you could chain me to a computer for years and nothing would happen! They say you are never too old to learn, but in my case, never is another word for ‘infinity’. I thank God for my family, for I have a second chance to find out if anyone out there likes the kind of novels I write…