Welcome back to another Open Book Blog Hop!

Today’s topic is: What is your author origin story?

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I love the idea of an origin story. I’m a big fan of the Marvel superhero films, and a few of the DC ones too, so I do love a good origin story. But what about my own? Specifically in terms of my own writing.

Mine stretches back to childhood. That was when my love of reading began. It gave me a love of good stories, fantastic characters and expansive worlds. I read a wide range of books. My love for writing kickstarted at school, when we had classes dedicated to creative writing.

Fast forward to 2015, and I decided to set up my book review blog. This lead me to reading even more books, from a much wider range of authors. Eventually, this lead me to the realisation that critiquing the work of others was one thing, but actually writing something of my own was something else altogether.

From that point on, I started working on short stories, a failed effort on a novel, and what has now become the first two books in a series, with the third and a crime thriller in the works. All in all, a rather simple story, but it’s mine.