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Career
Her first professional sale came from “Eustace,” a 90 word vignette at the age of 21 in 1968. She worked varies jobs such as file clerk and assistant librarian due to rejection of her works for almost a decade. Her first novel (for children) was The Dragon Hoard, published in 1971 by the publisher Macmillan. Many British publishers rejected The Birthgrave thus she wrote to DAW Books. Her career really took off with the acceptance in 1975 by Daw Books USA of her adult fantasy epic The Birthgrave – a mass-market paperback. Lee has since maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing. The Birthgrave allowed Lee to be a full-time writer and stop doing “stupid and soul-killing jobs."

Major publishing companies are less accepting of Lee’s works today. The companies which Lee has worked with for numerous years are even refusing to look at her proposals. Smaller publishing companies are just doing a few of Lee’s works. The refusals does not stop her from writing and she has numerous novels and short stories which are just sitting in her cupboard. Mail from fans even asked if she was dead because no new Lee works had been released. Lee even tried changing her genre, but to no success.

Sales
Lee had “quietly phenomenal sales” at certain periods throughout her career. When she tried changing her genre some of her works were liked by critics and published by small publishers, but today it makes no difference. The royalties were good before the publishers went bankrupt.