[LMB] Fwd: Since I've not seen these here yet

[Jacki Knight]

On 05/12/2008, at 3:52 PM, Claire Nollet wrote:
> Oh, my, how funny!  Brought back some memories!  Including my  
> REALLY BAD
> first novel, written when I was 14, that was clearly illustrative  
> of the
> books I'd read the previous year (Terry Brooks, Tolkien, Asimov,  
> McCaffrey,
> and Herbert).  I called it "The Magic Sapphire," and if it wasn't  
> THE worst
> book ever written, it sure ranked right up there.  I chanced across  
> it in a
> box in my mid-20s, read it through, and was horrified at how awful  
> it was.
>  Made a nice bonfire, though.

You burned your juvenilia?

What are they going to print after you've died, a famous novelist  
with lots of published titles to your name, if they don't have that?

Jacki in Canberra - tongue firmly in posterity's cheek