Alan McDermott
1982
Alan McDermott is one of the highly successful novelists from The United Kingdom who has written a several successful books based on the mystery, literature & fiction, and thriller genres. Apart from being an author, he is also a popular software developer. In fact, author Alan began his career as a software developer and then went on to become a writer of mystery novels. He is happily married and lives in the south of England, along with his loving wife and beautiful twin daughters. Author Alan says that he wanted to become a novelist ever since the early 1990s, but his primary work commitments did not let that happen at that time. Also, some of his earlier novels were rejected by the publishing companies. As a result, author Alan had to wait for some time before he was able to get his first book published. At one point of time he had stopped chasing his dream of becoming a writer because of the continuous rejections. Finally, author Alan went on to write an interesting novel, that the publishers could not reject, when his twin daughters asked him to tell them a story before going to bed on one night. Alan was already exhausted to repeat the stories from their books, so he decided to make a story on his own. Eventually, author Alan described his daughters the story of a magical creature named The Jambalian. When his daughters kept insisting him for continuing with the story for several successive nights, Alan decided to write a few sequences of the magical story so that he could get some relief and his wife could read them out to their twin daughters. So, as author Alan sat down to pen on paper, his old desire of becoming a novelist returned once again. Eventually, author Alan went on to dig out one of his previously written short stories and updated it with new additions and several other changes. When he showed it to a colleague, who was an aspiring novelist herself, she was so much impressed by it that she asked him to get it to a publisher.