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Despite writing an utterly appalling science fiction novel at the age of 15 (and having it gently rejected by publishers Macmillan) I never expected to actually be published, never mind published and paid!
When Virgin were publishing the Doctor Who books, years ago, I sent off for the writers' guidelines (more out of curiosity than with the intention of actually writing anything - after all, these were proper books, written by proper authors, not ordinary bods like me).
True enough, I never wrote anything.
But a chance meeting with Gary Russell - one of the writers of the Virgin books at the time, and of the BBC Doctor Who books since then - at BBC Manchester led to us exchanging a couple of emails. I must have casually mentioned that I really ought to get myself together and submit something to the BBC because, out of the blue, he sent me an email asking if I'd like to pitch for a story in the Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Men Diaries anthology, a collection of Doctor Who spin-off stories. Never dreaming that I'd be accepted, I sent him an idea and he and Paul Cornell (the creator of Bernice 'Benny' Summerfield and the anthology's editor) liked it and said 'Yes!'
And the rest is history! Click on the links to the left to see more about wot I've wrote.