Worlds of Paul Jessup

Snurched from Jay Lake
[from here]

• Age when I decided I wanted to be a writer: 5 (no, really. I wrote books on paper, stapled them and then sold them to other students for a buck in kindergarten)
• Age when I got my hands on a typewriter and taught myself to use it: 13 (if by typewriter you mean laptop)
• Age when I wrote my first short story: 5 (if you count child size picture books)
• Age when I wrote my first novel:7 (It was about transformers)
• Novels written between age 30 and age 39: 3
• Age when I first submitted a short story to a magazine:17 (Silver Web- wooo!)
• Number of rejections prior to first story sale: 6
• Lifetime number of rejections: I lost count.
• Age when I sold my first short story:27
• Age when I wrote a saleable novel: 31 (well, novella)
• Age when I sold that novel: 31 (well, novella)
• Age now:31
• Age when the money coming in exceeded my statuory employment: not yet
• Number of books sold: 1 novella, 1 short story collection
• Number of short stories sold: 32
• Number of titles in print: none yet
• Number of titles in production or pre-production:1 novella and 1 short story collection