WRITING: I guess that must have been a children's book as a toddler. I dislike reading because I suffer from dyslexia (not very practical for an author). I wrote my first unpublished novel at 17 which was read (...)

What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote?

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I guess that must have been a children's book as a toddler. I dislike reading because I suffer from dyslexia (not very practical for an author). I wrote my first unpublished novel at 17 which was read by more than 10 publishers who thought I had potential. I wrote another 8 unpublished novels before a publisher contacted me with the request to write my autobiography in the Dutch. It became a best-seller in the Netherlands and Belgium and has also been published in the English in the USA. My follow-up memoir I wrote directly in the English and was published in the UK and USA in 2007. I couldn't believe that my non-fiction books got published, despite the fact that I am a fiction writer. I am also baffled that I am more successful writing in a language that is not my mother tongue.