Sam Wilding

Q: What were you like at school?

Adventurous. Never took to english but loved science.

Q: What did you want to be when you were a child?

A vet or a vicar, or something else beginning with v.

Q: Which three words describe you best?

Enthusiastic Fun creative

Q: What is your favourite word?

troglodyte

Q: What makes you cringe?

a lack of self awareness

Q: What are you afraid of?

fear itself

Q: When did you last have a really good laugh?

just now, as I thought of my wife telling me to grow a beard to hide my alleged jowls

Q: What is your most treasured possession?

My Gibson Les Paul Guitar

Q: What do you do as a hobby?

I play in a rock band

Q: What strange habits do you have?

Getting up at 5am to write

Q: What’s your favourite food?

Anything they cook at The Cross at Kingussie

Q: What do you day dream about?

The Cross at Kingussie

Q: What’s the most outrageous thing you’ve done?

That would be telling

Q: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?

acting

Q: Do you feel younger or older than your current age?

much younger, apart from the jowls

Q: If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be?

Michael Palin

Q: What quality do you most admire in a person?

Naivety

Q: What is the most interesting place you have ever visited?

the troglodyte caves in Tunisia

Q: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you?

grow a beard

Q: What would you most like to change about yourself?

my jowls

Q: What has life taught you?

not to be too self concious about my jowls

Q: How long have you been a writer?

7 years really.

Q: Was there a specific moment in your life when you decide to become a writer?

When my son Ryan was in hosptial. It cheered him up.

Q: Where do you do your writing?

Anywhere: trains, planes, bedrooms, dinner tables etc

Q: What are the best and worst things about being an author?

Best - getting to meet loads of nice people Worst - cant think of any.

Q: Where do you get your greatest ideas from?

Eavesdropping in the pub

Q: Which of your own characters do you most identify with?

Eethan Magichand

Q: What do you do to combat “writers’ block”?

I write a random chapter heading and go for it.

Q: What was your favourite book as a child?

The Secret of Spiggy Holes

Q: What book do you wish you had written?

Twilight

Q: What advice would you give to aspiring authors?

Write a diary every day using a new word each time.