Km Peyton, author of Flambards, had her first book published at the age of 15 and has had a book published every year since. She’s now 86. Here’s her advice on how to follow in her footsteps
If you want to write a book, write one! It’s very easy: you only need an exercise book and a pencil. No, that’s an old lady talking. Much easier on your computer. There is nothing to stop you… unless perhaps you can’t think of anything to say. That might be a big problem.
I was very lucky because I could think up stories very easily. I wrote my first book when I was eight. It was called Grey Star, the Story of a Racehorse. When that was finished I immediately started another one, and then another. I was always writing a book and have never stopped since. It took me until I was 15 to actually get one published. That one was called Sabre the Horse from the Sea. It was about my 10th or 12th book, so I had got plenty of practice in. All my books were about ponies or horses, as that’s all I thought about when I was a child. I couldn’t have a pony of my own as we lived in a town and my parents couldn’t afford it. So I wrote down all my wishes and invented ponies whose life stories I followed: good owners and bad owners, like Black Beauty.
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