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Continue to ChatIn the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does. - Tanith Lee from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/in-the-usual-way-i-submitted-manuscripts-to-publishers-this-was-not-so-much-a-feeling-that-i-should-be