My name is Lisamarie Lamb and I'm 29 years old, for a little while longer. I was five when I wrote my first short story - it involved a car going over a cliff, Jessica Fletcher and the Phantom Raspberry Blower (from The Two Ronnies). It didn't have much of a plot (he did it, she solved it), but it did have rather colourful (crayon) illustrations and it did make me realise that writing was for me.
At 12 I wrote my first novel during the summer holidays. Loosely based on the Famous Five with a bit of James Bond thrown in, it was an adventure story about a lot of young peop more...