Nothing came of these manuscripts and it would be about fifteen years later that he published “Alabama Moon” his debut novel that could have been his 9th manuscript. It was while Watt was in college that he wrote two or three manuscripts that he sent to editors and agents in New York. Writing then became a way to dream of faraway places when he was not spending his time in study. He believes that this could have had something to do with moving to a big city, where he no longer had the bay and the swamp as distractions. When Watt Key graduated from high school, he proceeded to Birmingham-Southern College, which is where he started taking writing very seriously. It felt good to finally be better at something as compared to his classmates and he began working even harder to prove his class teacher right. He could blow every one of his classmates out of the water but this was not evident to him until he was encouraged by his high school teacher.
It is here that his high school English teacher convinced him that he could write novels.īack then, he was a mediocre student who failed in everything except creative writing and literature. He attended a very small school that had a graduating class of only 23 people. He is convinced that it is something that someone like a budding Stephen King could have written.
It tells the story of a young collie that was out during a tornado and ended up trapped in a barbed-wire fence. His mother still has one of these creations that he penned as a ten-year-old.
Her grandfather was one of the best storytellers around in addition to the fact that his parents used to read to them most nights.įrom a very early age, he was fascinated with books and began drawing pictures, and stories that he would then bind in cardboard. Stories and books were a large part of entertainment for Watt Key when he was growing up. The house was full of sleeping bags and bunk beds, as they preferred the portability and efficiency of sleeping bags rather than blankets and sheets. He used to share a room with no air conditioning with his four brothers and during the winter they kept warm with gas space heaters. The house did not have many conveniences and it was not even insulated. The house he lived in had been built by his grandfather during the Second World War when he had been a ship engineer in Mobile. With so few neighbors, Key and his siblings learned to entertain themselves and spent a lot of time trapping in the swamp, building tree forts, and fishing in the bay. When he was growing up as a child, the town has a remote stretch of low-lying coastline, where he loved to play whenever he was not in school. The author was born in 1970 in Point Clear, Alabama. Watt Key is a bestselling children’s fiction author from Southern Alabama that is best known for the “Alabama Moon” series of novels.
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