When I did, it was clear that the path I was on with the big 6 was littered with the decaying bodies of first time novelists who came before me, and I could easily see myself as yet another publishing casualty. (dealsagar.com)
Mr. Farland tirelessly devotes time to teaching aspiring authors how to launch themselves into the happy business of becoming first time novelists, as do the successful authors who lend their time to his programs. (katedancey.com)
First time novelist Stef Penney shook the British literary world last year when she won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread Award) with The Tenderness of Wolves, not least because she has never been to Canada and carried out all her research in the British Library. (bookbrowse.com)