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Author's Biography:
My life as a writer
Because most of my writing is actually retelling legends, I am probably one
of the few authors in the world who doesn't get asked, "Where do you
get your ideas?" I've had plans lined up for future books since I started
writing, although sometimes they've been changed in odd ways…
I started writing at the age of fifteen, when we were studying Le Morte
d'Arthur in English class and my teacher asked me, rather despairingly,
exactly what it was I saw in Mordred. Finding this difficult to articulate
verbally, I responded by writing three hundred thirty-odd pages in order
to show her how Camelot might look from the perspective of the one person
who wasn't part of the overall ideology – was, in fact, proof
of its faults.
That book never got published, but it did receive some nice rejection
notes (because that was back when you could still send an unsolicited
ms. to a publisher and not wait more than nine months to a year before
getting a reply – could, in fact, get a reply), and I was on my
way. My second was written for a contest, and was the sort of high school
modernization of the Faust story, with drugs replacing black magic,
that only a sixteen year-old could find Deeply Significant.
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