The Story of Galaxy's Game

How long does it take to write a novel and have it published? Here’s my story.

I started writing Galaxy’s Game when I was ten. I didn’t know it was going to be a novel at the time. I carried on writing it on and off till I was twenty, all by hand in exercise books. I rediscovered it when I was thirty, and rewrote it on my laptop. It amounted to 80% of a novel. A few years later my two boys, young teens at the time, discovered it on the hard drive and loved it, so I was inspired to finally finish it when I was about forty. After submitting it to various places and wondering what to do with it for several more years, it was accepted for publication as a ten-part serial on a long-running webzine. Sadly the webzine ceased publication with only four parts published. So eventually I decided to self-publish it via KDP. I commissioned this fabulous cover and this week it’s available on Amazon. Forty-three years after I started writing it.