93 YR OLD AT THE STARTING BLOCKS, 11-08-08
Mon, 11/08/2008 - 20:54 — Ed Kane
Please bear with me folks. I do have a 'proper entry' - pressed for time this minute tho.( Pressed for time)
Just saw the tale of Lorna Page, her real name presumably. Just had her 1st book published at 93.
Will leave it at that...
Ed!
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93 yr old new writer
93? Gives even me hope! -Pete
Please admit that if 'Pete
Please admit that if 'Pete Kalu' was mentioned amongst some publushers somewhere, there might be the remark "we've heard the name..."
I'm just remembering there's some lady, hit the mark in her 60's. Publisher's suggesting changing this, pruning another part; she told them: 'you're not changing one word' she got away with it. I've some vague idea she was from the west country area.
Ed
getting your face/name known
yes I admit, my name mihgth open a few doors. Still need to have good work once inside that room though! -pete
Hope!
There's hope yet for us rewriters!
What they didnt tell us is whether she was getting rejected until she was 93....
Gift!
I'd been wondering that; I
I'd been wondering that; I got the impression it was her first attempt tho.
Main point from where I sit is that I've taken it on board that publishers want younger writers. On the basis that it's going to take them some years grooming the person along, helping build their profile, all that jazz.
Frankly there's so much of life that's BS that when I hear 'conventional wisdom' I've quite a tendency to stick my tongue out at it.
More power to her elbow!.. there's hope, yes
Ed