From the age of 14, Forbes High School student Kelly Rimmer (nee Prior) was always working on a novel.
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It was 20 years before she would, rather impulsively, submit one to a UK publishing company.
Just five years later, she's released her sixth novel and is coming back to Forbes to talk about both the book and her journey.
Kelly is touring with two other authors, Kim Kelly and Alissa Callen, who also both have new books this month.
They will be at Forbes library this Thursday from 2pm to 4pm to share their stories - and Kelly would love to see people there.
The authors have been touring for about three weeks, talking about writing, publishing, and answering questions.
Kelly attended Forbes High School and now lives in Orange with her husband and children, but her books have predominantly been published overseas in languages as diverse as Mandarin and Portugese.
Her two most recent books have been published in print and released in Australia and on this, her first central west book tour, she's loving the opportunity to discuss them in person with her readers.
Six novels in five years is intense, but Kelly says she burned a lot of midnight oil writing and polishing her novels before she made the leap of sending anything to a publisher.
Things have moved remarkably quickly since then. There have been 600,000 digital downloads of Kelly's previous four books: Me Without You, The Secret Daughter, When I Lost You and A Mother's Confession.
After translation into more than 20 languages and publication all over the world, Before I Let You Go and now The Things We Cannot Say are now in print in her home country through Hatchette Australia.
"I did not imagine any of these amazing things would happen," she said.
You're asked to register attendance for Thursday online through Eventbrite.