No here's a funny story!

For your information I'm female (this is relevant)

When I was just a beginner (14) I decided that, cause all my mates liked what I was writing and more importantly cause I liked what I was writing, I was going to get my first poetry book published!

So I grabed the book of publishers and wrote down a few names I liked the look of and sent off 45 pages of wonderment. This was thier replys...

Virgin - "We don't publish poetry. Compliemnets from Virgin."

Penguin - "Read some more modern material."
(I know I went for the big ones! I was only young!)

Welsh Women's Poetry Society...

"I am afraid we can not publish your work as you are not Welsh and you are not a woman!"

So - I've now moved to wales and next year I'm sending off my new book and my birth cetificate to show them that I AM A WOMAN!

And the moral of the story is

DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES AND DON'T EVER GIVE UP!