I went to Nottingham Trent University and had an interview with Mahendra Solanki who was working there at the time. I knew I wanted to write commercially, have writing as a career and sell books, but I’d always wanted to write good quality writing. This gave me some flexibility, even though I was in full-time employment. I was self-employed and working largely in Nottingham City schools as a freelance bursar doing the budgets. We looked at it together and that’s when I thought it would be a great time for me to go back to university. My daughter was looking at choices for A-levels and brought some information home about them. What made you go to university to do two writing related degrees? So I eventually realised I needed a different approach. I once read that the definition of insanity was doing the same things and getting different results. In my late thirties I stepped up my efforts, focused and tried and get an agent. When I set a goal, and I really want that goal,I’m prepared to work hard towards it. Although I didn’t rule out the independent route.īut despite my efforts I never made it off the slush pile. This was because I felt this was the way to have longevity in a writing career. But even as e-publishing became more popular I still favoured the traditional route. I largely wrote adult crime.Īt that time, about 20 years ago, e-publishing was not what it is now, so I wanted to be traditionally published. I was always sending out three chapters and a covering letter to agents. So after doing my A-levels I got a job working in accountancy and continued to work with numbers until recently.Įven after I got married, had a daughter and brought her up, I never stopped writing. If you’d asked me when I was about to leave school what I was going to do, I would have said I wanted to be a journalist, and that my dream job was to be a writer.īut life never quite turns out the way you want it to. I read widely from literary fiction to crime, children’s and young adult books. I started when I was very young and have always read lots. Kim also talks about how much her writing has benefited from doing both these degrees. Part of this hard work involved a BA in English and Creative Writing and an MA in Creative Writing and.
Smart was such a novel, but the road to becoming published by Pan Macmillan was a long one, requiring a great deal of sustained hard work by its author Kim Slater. Every so often a debut novel comes along that takes off because the writing is spot on and really speaks to its audience.
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