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Gill James
http://www.gilljames.co.ukgill.james@btinternet.com
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Q: What do you do as a hobby?
I like to go for long walks in the country. I also sing with a choir.
Q: What strange habits do you have?
I like peeling labels off jars. The family often get very frustrated because they no longer know what some jars contain.
Q: What’s your favourite food?
Chocolate.
Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?
Much younger. Reading and writng children's books keeps you young.
Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
Nerja, in the South of Spain. It has some wonderful caves... which were the inspiration for my first children's book.
Q: How long have you been a writer?
I have been a published writer since the year 2000.
Q: Was there a specific moment in your life when you decide to become a writer?
I've written all my life completing my first novel when I was nine! That one was not published. In 1999 I decided to try to make my living from writing and writing-related activities such as school visits and teaching as I do at a university.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
In one of the bedrooms in our home. I like to face a wall, but I do look out of the window at a tree which is often full of birds. Sometimes my cat sits on the windowsill and chunters at them. I also somtiems write in my office at the university. That has a glorious view of the gasworks, but I'm usually too busy writing to notice.
Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?
The worst thing is never knowing if, when and how much you will get paid. The best thing is being totally absorbed in your writing.
Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?
Life and everything around me.
Q: Which of your own characters do you most identify with?
Always the main character in my latest novel.
Q: What do you do to combat “writers’ block”?
Just write. Oddly, I've found on the days when it's more of struggle I actually write a lot better.
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Write, write and write. Then rewrite.
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