How I Became An E-Book Writer - Part II: Winning Smarties Gold With 'Midnight Blue', by Pauline Fisk
Last month I wrote about the sweet success of having a first book published. This time I’m moving on the story by fifteen years. During those years, as befit a child of the sixties, I did the hippie thing, moved to the countryside from the city, grew vegetables [not very well], baked bread in a solid fuel stove, collected cats and dogs – and five children. I also taught myself to weave, and made cloth, wall-hangings and rugs. Then suddenly I found myself heading for my forties, the mother of five children under the age of eleven, including a new baby. And despite all my busyness, an overwhelming sense of emptiness settled like fog upon my life. Who was I really? Was I the person I seemed to be, or someone else? Where was I going? Where was the person I used to be? That little girl once called Pauline Fisk who had so longed to be a writer when she grew up – where was she? For more than a decade, Dave and I had lived in a cottage in ...