Little steps not one big jump

I think it is a big step from never having had anything published to becoming a money making author.

I have always been a fan of writing for specialist societies. In the last five years I have had articles published in journals intended for amateur astronomers, readers of the Biggles and Lone Pine books and for postal, postcard and railway historians.

I didn't get paid for these contributions but it did get my name known and this meant that when I progressed to the next level and wrote a more substantial study that members needed to buy at least they knew who I was.