Like most writers, I assume, my journey to publication has been long, fraught, and filled with ups, downs, side-to-sides, and more blood, sweat and tears than could fill a very large bucket of…well, blood, sweat and tears. Indeed, I had written two full-length novels before I had ever even published my first piece of prose. Whilst those novels are currently still drawer-dwelling like some kind of eternal particle board-fragranced albatross...