Jenny Robson is a music teacher in Maun, Botswana. She has published several YA novels, one of which, Because Pula means Rain, won the UNESCO Prize for Youth Literature in the Service of Tolerance.

When Jenny began writing, she took a course with a well-established overseas college. Her creative tutor was not impressed. He told her she should give up and try another hobby. But she went on believing in her dream. After some years of hard work and struggle and rejection, at last she began to get published.

And so her advice to young writers is: “Believe in your dream. Don’t let anyone discourage you! Not ever!”