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Damian Harvey
http://www.damianharvey.co.ukauthor@damianharvey.co.uk
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Q: What were you like at school?
I was quieter, shorter and had more hair. I was a 'could do better, should try harder, daydreaming' sort of pupil.
Q: What did you want to be when you were a child?
I wanted to spend all my time playing records and listening to music so I thought it would be great to work in a radio station.
Q: What makes you cringe?
Stepping on slugs in my bare feet (I try to avoid doing this whenever I can).
Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?
I have a really good laugh every day.
Q: What is your most treasured possession?
They certainly aren't possessions but my three daughters are my most treasured things.
Q: What do you do as a hobby?
I love listening to music, watching movies, walking in the Lake District and other interesting places. I also enjoy swimming, reading and watching ice hockey (I used to enjoy playing it too).
Q: What’s your favourite food?
Fresh, crusty bread with cheese, pickles, salami and olives.
Q: What do you day dream about?
When I was little, I spent a lot of time daydreaming - but now I have a job where I get to turn my daydreams into books. It's brilliant!
Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?
I never seem to feel any different so I suppose I must feel younger than my current age.
Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?
Honesty.
Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Just do it!
Q: What strange habits do you have?
I enjoy sitting on my own in my shed at the bottom of the garden creating imaginary worlds filled with imaginary characters and seeing what happens to them... I think that's strange enough - don't you?
Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
Either playing music on a radio station or a firefighter.
Q: What has life taught you?
Things don't happen by themselves, so if you want to do something - you have to get on with it and do it. It's no good wasting time and thinking that you will or can do it later. The chance may never come again.
Q: What is your favourite word?
I don't think I have one favourite word, though perhaps I should as people often ask what it is, but my favourite word is the one that I'm looking for when I'm writing a story.
Q: What are you afraid of?
When I was very little I thought that I was afraid of the dark... but then I realised it wasn't the dark that I was afraid of - it was all those creepy crawly things that hide in the dark. Aarghh!!!
Q: What’s the most outrageous thing you’ve done?
Hmm... I would be too embarrassed to tell you that.
Q: What would you most like to change about yourself?
My socks... and I do... I change them every day (sometimes more than once).
Q: How long have you been a writer?
I've known I wanted to be a writer for quite a long time but I only started to write seriously sometime around the year 2000.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
I do most of my writing in the Scribble Shack - a little shed at the bottom of our garden - but sometimes I write when I'm sat in bed, on a train, in the bath (though the writing goes on in my head there as i don't want to get the paper wet).
Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?
There are lots of best things... Having a new book published and getting the first copy through the post is great, but I think the very best thing is meeting or hearing from people that have enjoyed reading my books. I think that the worst thing is not knowing if anyone is going to like what you have written. if publishers don't like it they won't make it into a book. If readers don;t like it they won't buy your books or borrow it from the library.
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
I have lots of favourites, but the first book I bought with my own pocket money was Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown (and I've still got it on my bookshelf)
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Read lots, write lots, and have fun. But most of all - JUST DO IT!
Q: Was there a specific moment in your life when you decide to become a writer?
Not really... but in sometime around the year 2000 I realised that if i really did want to be a writer then I had better get writing and stop wasting my time thinking about it.
Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?
Ideas come to you from lots of different places but they all collect in my imagination which is where I find them.
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