The girls, too, were waiting for him to become published and famous.
What are the opportunities for teenagers to become published writers and are there any examples of great successes?
Many fans from such groups, such as, Isaac Asimov, went on to become published authors, blurring the distinction between amateur fan and professional writer.
There are thousands of unpublished authors out there wanting to become published ones – many of them writing with a children's readership in mind.
Other success stories include award-winners Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Mari Hannah and Niel Bushnell, who met their respective agents through the awards and went on to become published writers.
Mr. Butcher is not the only author to come out of the Amber community: by some estimates, a dozen or more of the hundreds of former players have gone on to become published authors.
Many poets who have gone on to become published have been helped at a crucial stage in their development by working with established poets in one or other of these ways.
And neither was above noticing how the magazine Mademoiselle chose to cover the newly famous Beat Generation, once these two and their friends managed — to the everlasting amazement of one and all — to become published, celebrated, imitated and, in some quarters, reviled.
Publishers owned the printing press and the access to distribution, and they alone wielded the power to decide which writers would graduate to become published authors, and what books readers could read.
Studies with results that achieve formal statistical significance might, for example, have increased chances to become published [1] [5].
