Cherie Jones

‘Idecided on publication by a reputable publisher as a personal objective sometime in my late teens. So I started submitting stories to local newspapers. The editors at the time would publish one or other of my stories in the Sunday lifestyle magazine and I’d be paid about $25 each time. Just to open the newspaper on Sunday and see a story I wrote was indescribable – pure elation. It was more the joy of thinking that someone “got” the story and thought it worthy of publication and less about being paid for publication, but