UK Group to Fight Bias Against Older Debut Authors - Publishing Perspectives

Forty-eight year old British novelist Claire Fuller, whose debut novel Our Endless Numbered Days, won the Desmond Elliot Award this year, says "yes." And in The Guardian, she wrote about a new writers group: the Prime Writers: - a group of about 50 authors who were over 40 when their debut novel was published. The group spans many genres, publishers and locations; some of us have agents, others don't; what links us is that many journalists, event organizers and book prize administrators think we're getting on a bit."