Tegan Abbott

No writer is a writer by chance alone; all writers earn their ability through dedication, sacrifice and relentless hard work. Tegan is no exception and ’Blood Gift’ was an intentionally ironic name for the series that she bled for and worked profoundly hard to create … while creating herself in the process. And like writing, it did not come easily or for free, it was earned while she was working and/or studying full time.

Tegan started her first novel when she was sixteen. It was inspired by a White Wolf table-top role-play game, Exalted. Another inspiration came from her work in aged care and psychiatric care, also when she was sixteen. Most of her first book was written on paper towels in her breaks while working full time, then typed onto her computer after work. When completed, her first novel came to 75,000 words and was finished just after she turned eighteen. Working without any guidance, Tegan continued writing and rewrote the same story six times, and it slowly evolved into ‘Blood Gift. Tegan published ’Blood Gift: Part One’ in April 2012, and it was only then that she began to reveal to her friends that she wrote novels.

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Background image by Sarah Ellerton.