I didnt have a mentor, or manuscript assessor, or agent, or previous published work to my credit, or anyone to speak on my behalf. The only other person who had read the manuscript for The Running Man (at that point called In Dream Too Deep) before I sent it away, was my wife. (I never did bother to find out exactly how many of the other publishers on my list would have rejected me!) As Ive said before it was the best phone call of my life. The first reply I got from Omnibus Books/Scholastic Australia was an acceptance. I figured Id work my way down the list, get ten rejections, and then be able to go back to teaching knowing that at least I gave it a shot. I researched publishers through The Australian Writers Marketplace and came up with a list of ten that I hoped might be interested in my story, if it was any good. Over the next three years I took short teaching contracts at various schools plus time off in between to write and by late 2003 had a manuscript finished. My long time dream was to be a published author, but at the time I resigned, I hadnt written a single word of the story that would become The Running Man. In 2000 I was a full time English and Economics teacher, but I resigned from my job at the end of the first semester, desperate to have a go at writing a story that had taken over my mind for the previous year or more. How I got my first book The Running Man published. Sugimoto, Cassidy R.This is a weekly series of guest posts on How Writers Work.Īustralian childrens and YA author Michael Gerard Bauer talks about his writing process. Priem, Jason Kousha, Kayvan Thelwall, Mike Bar-Ilan, Judit Shema, Hadas Haustein, Stefanie Hook, Peter A. Vilhena, Daril Leydesdorff, Loet Larivi?re, Vincent Bornmann, Lutz Bowman, Benjamin Bauer, Johann Marx, Werner Schier, Hermann Palzenberger, Margit Boyack, Kevin Klavans, Richard Kurtz, Michael J. Furner, Jonathan Gingras, Yves McCain, Katherine W.
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