When I was between eleven and twelve years old, I wrote a children's
adventure book. At the time, I was living with my parents in
My father gave me an old accounts ledger in which to write the book. It was quite thick and had a hard cover. I carried it everywhere I went for a whole year, scribbling my adventure story every chance I had in school recesses, lunch hours and after school.
At the end of the year it was finished, but I had no outlet for it. I didn't even have a typewriter (there were no computers or internet in those days).
During the school term after that I lived in the
hostel of
However, the book still didn't go anywhere. I carried on writing the
poems and stories I had written since the age of nine and took my book with me when I moved to
I still have some of the first pages from the book, but sadly the rest
of it was somehow lost over the years. I believe it may had been eaten by
insects when stored on
Anyway, reading over what I have of the book, I realize that I have
actually come full circle. I started off writing mysteries and dramas and now I
am working on Book Three in my Buchanan Mystery Romance Series, which is also
full of drama!
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