For a long while I was working full-time and focusing on the book in my spare time. How long did it take you to complete your first book from the first idea to release?Īt least three years.
When I got one or two acceptances, that gave me the confidence boost I needed to keep going. So I started off writing short stories while I was still at university, and eventually got around to submitting them to magazines. Sometimes you read something great and think “I want to write something like that,” and other times of course you read something terrible and think “Hey, I could do better than that!” In those days it seemed like a bit of a pipe-dream, but I can be stubborn when I want to be! And of course I was always a big reader, which is a great way of generating ideas for new stuff. When I went to university, I studied a joint honours programme: Creative Writing and English. I first thought about writing seriously as a career when I finished my A-Levels. When did you take a step to start writing? For that reason, books as objects have always had a sort of sense of wonder for me. They really helped to stimulate my imagination even before I got around to cracking the spine and actually reading any of the stories inside. The house was piled high with classic crime paperbacks, including heaps of Agatha Christies with fabulous painted covers by the artist Tom Adams. I always wanted to write books because I was lucky enough to grow up surrounded by them. My name is Tom Mead and I’m a writer specialising in vintage-style murder mysteries. On The Table Read Magazine, “ the best book magazine in the UK “, author Tom Mead talk about his new vintage murder mystery book, Death And The Conjuror.
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