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How did you get published? There are various routes to getting published. I followed the most traditional one, which involves finding an agent first. In order to find an agent, you have to write to them with a synopsis of your story and the first three chapters. Each agent might have slightly different requests but this is broadly the case for all of them. I was lucky, sometimes writers can apply to forty agents before someone will take them on. It’s a nervous wait, as some

‘The Scorched Earth’, and Ana: where she came from. The Scorched Earth has a number of different voices, but my protagonist is Ana, a woman struggling with grief as her partner in in jail, and then ghosts from her past emerge: she begins to hear footsteps behind her in a car park late and night; she begins to look over her shoulder… Ana’s experiences are both ideas I’ve wanted to write about for a while. It was a pleasure to see her come to life on paper. Women are told