In 1988, a friend of a friend recommended me to the editor of the then embryonic teen romance series of novels being planned by Dolly magaizine to be known as Dolly Fiction.

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It was not a genre I had ever thought to be engaged in, but I had nothing to lose. I submitted a draft, which was accepted. It took me six weeks to get it into shape, which I did on an Apple Euro computer using a word processing program known as Zardex. 

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I was paid $2000 for the six weeks of work.

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I wrote a second novel (pictured here) for their third series. That took me only two weeks but I still got the flat fee of $2000.

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A new XT PC cost just under $2000.

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I then had a new state of the art XT series PC with a 5 meg hard drive.

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I doubt the books are still around anywhere, but if you do go looking, I wrote under the name of Chris Kelson.