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Q: What were you like at school?
Very talkative and always in trouble for it, but I was quite good at looking innocent when the teacher turned to look at me so I often got away with it and often someone else got the blame!
Q: What did you want to be when you were a child?
I can't remember, except as I got older I wanted to be a teacher or an actor.
Q: Which three words describe you best?
Smiley, chatty, caring
Q: What are you afraid of?
Sci-fi films
Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?
Today, when I met my youngest brother. He always tells the best jokes!
Q: What is your most treasured possession?
My old teddy
Q: What do you day dream about?
Being rich and famous!
Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
I've already been a teacher and a Bed and Breakfast landlady as well as a writer, but I'd quite like to have a go at being a lion tamer.
Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?
Sometimes, I forget I'm not a teenager, but other times, especially when I'm tired, I think I'm much older than I am.
Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?
Respect for others
Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?
Kapadokia in Turkey where the wind and water have eroded the landscape into weird and wonderful shapes.
Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Whatever you want to achieve, it might not come easily, but stick at it and keep trying!
Q: How long have you been a writer?
About 15 years
Q: Was there a specific moment in your life when you decide to become a writer?
When I was teaching and there weren't enough good books for my class to read, I decided to write some myself.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
Usually, in the spare bedroom, but as I write on my laptop, I sometimes find a change of scene helps me concentrate better.
Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?
The best is when a publisher accepts a story for publication and when that story becomes a book. The worst is getting rejection letters.
Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?
I often wake up in the night or early morning and an idea is buzzing around in my head so I have paper and pen by the bed. If I don't write it down, that idea is gone in the morning.
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
I loved books by Malcolm Saville (eg The Mystery at Witchend) who wrote adventure stories about a group of children in The Lone Pine Club. My brother, friends and I had a Lone Pine Club in our garden. I also loved The Railway Children.
Q: What book do you wish you had written?
I've just read a book called Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbottson. I wish I had written that!
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