After attempting and failing to complete various novels, she eventually went back to ‘Demonglass’ in 2008.īecause of her naivety, Hawkins queried an agent even before her novel was done.
Ideas for new novels kept tempting her away. She started the manuscript that eventually became ‘Demonglass’ but she couldn’t finish it. She saw the rationale of staying home to write her novel. Considering how unhappy and frustrated she had been for so long, Hawkins agreed. Following these traumatic events, the author’s husband, who also worked as a teacher, quit his job and then encouraged her to do the same. Several children had to be tackled and maced. The situation escalated to a point where the police were summoned. The author’s decision to abandon teaching can be imputed to a riot that happened at her school.
However, this did little to calm Hawkins who couldn’t ignore the fact that her career stood on a knife’s age. He eventually found a way to keep her on as a permanent substitute of sorts. At the time, the author’s place of employment had a decent principal that was doing what he could to protect her job. Once her teaching career started to crumble in 2007, she was forced to revisit her publishing goals. It did not help matters that she fell pregnant soon after. She became so busy that the manuscript fell to the wayside. Hawkins was certain that she would return to the novel within a year’s time. It was around this period that she also started grad school. She produced over a hundred pages of the manuscript before she got a teaching job in high school. Back in 2004, Hawkins attempted to write her first novel. She was on the verge of graduating when the institution suddenly told her that she had several extra classes she was expected to complete before her educational journey could end.Įven though she had spent three years teaching, she was also expected to spend a semester working as a student-teacher without pay. But her school kept throwing obstacles in her way. Initially, the author attempted to secure her teaching certificate. While Hawkins eventually decided to leave teaching because of the toxicity she associated with the career, it took her a while to reach that conclusion. Once this period elapsed, the author’s place of employment told her that she had to get a teaching certificate to keep her job. However, the alternate certificate only permitted her to teach for three years. She was able to teach for a time because she had an alternate certificate. However, the author’s career began to unravel because she did not have a teaching certificate.
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