I am here with esteemed dragonologist and author, J.F.R. Coates. Thank you for being with us today, Mr. Coates. May I ask, when did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
I had just finished reading a certain fantasy novel – I won’t mention exactly which one, but it contains dragons – and I challenged myself to do better. Everyone I knew seemed to think this particular fantasy novel was amazing, yet I could see it was riddled with errors. I must have been about 16 at the time, and it was then I started writing my first novel. Those first few drafts shall never see the light of day.