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Q: What were you like at school?
Shy and hard working. I tried very hard to get A's for everything, but now I'm not sure why.
Q: What did you want to be when you were a child?
I had no idea! If I'd known authors were real people, I might have wanted to be an author, but I thought they were special people who lived in castles and the job was not open to anyone else...
Q: What do you do as a hobby?
I ski, ride horses, cycle, folk dance, and once flew a glider solo.
Q: What’s your favourite food?
Chocolate, the darker the better.
Q: If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?
Alexander the Great.
Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?
Honesty.
Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?
Don't spread yourself too thinly.
Q: What has life taught you?
It's shorter than you think and might end at any moment.
Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?
I still feel about 12 - guess that's younger, then?
Q: How long have you been a writer?
All my life.
Q: Where do you do your writing?
I have ideas all over the place, but always write the words in my study sitting at my computer.
Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?
Best - the freedom. Worst - the money (when it's not going well) and the fame (when it is).
Q: What do you do to combat “writers’ block”?
I can always write, but sometimes suffer from publisher's block so it seems to the world I am not writing.
Q: What was your favourite book as a child?
Anne McCaffrey's Pern books about dragon riders, and Elyne Mitchell's Silver Brumby books.
Q: What advice would you give to aspiring authors?
Read lots, write lots, never give up.
Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?
My muse, who is a unicorn. He blogs at http://reclusivemuse.blogspot.com - visitors always welcome. If you leave him a comment, he will prod me with his horn until I reply...
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