Anne McCaffrey — American Author born on April 01, 1926, died on November 21, 2011

Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern fantasy series. Early in McCaffrey's 46-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list... (wikipedia)

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.