late off the starting block or just in time?
I love this:
BBC – Anglesey writer, 82, lands three-book deal
An 82-year-old teacher and theatre director has been given a three-book deal after writing her first novel.
The Great Lie, the start of Myrrha Stanford-Smith’s trilogy, is a fictional look at William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe’s rivalry.
The Brighton-born grandmother from Anglesey said she was gobsmacked to be offered the book agreement.
She decided to seek a deal after positive feedback to a children’s story she sent to BBC Radio Wales.
She said she was unprepared for the reaction from publishers Honno, however.
“I had to put the phone down and ring them back as I was so taken aback by the whole thing,” she said.
Good for her. What a hoot!
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