About - Jill Dobson

I’m a writer, among other things: reader, former academic, editor, hillwalker, dancer, tongue-tied perpetual language student.

My first novel, The Inheritors, was accepted for publication when I was 17 by an Australian publishing company that was just branching out into the still-new field of Young Adult Fiction. The Berlin Wall was still standing and even in Australia, we were (distantly) worried about nuclear apocalypse.

Many cities and countries later, I live in Glasgow, 50 miles down the road from the UK’s ageing nuclear deterrent at Faslane.

In the intervening decades, I published two more books, was dropped by my publisher and accumulated a hard-drive of novels that several agents couldn’t sell.

But I kept writing and, eventually, I decided to publish independently.

A new version of The Inheritors, rewritten for the 21st century, was released on 1 January 2024. I’m now working on a sequel, The Survivor Covenant, which I plan to publish in 2025.

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You can also hear me talking about my writing career and my decision to ‘go indie’ with Howard Lovy on his podcast, one of many inspirational pods produced by the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi).