People Still Come Up To Me And

Much Of My Reading Time Over The Last Decade And A Half Has Been Spent Reading Aloud To My Children. Those Children's Bedtime Rituals Of Supper, Bath, Stories, And Sleep Have Been A Staple Of My Life And Some Of The Best, Most Special Times I Can Remember.

I Bought A Selection Of Short, Romantic Fiction Novels, Studied Them, Decided That I Had Found A Formula And Then Wrote A Book That I Figured Was The Perfect Story. Thank Goodness It Was Rejected.

I Used To Think About How I Was Conceived Quite A Lot When I Was About 10 Or 11, But I Don't Think About It At All Now That So Many Other Babies Have Been Born In The Same Way.

Don't Write The Book You Think Publishers Want To Commission. Plenty Of Other Writers Will Be Doing The Same Thing.

Don't Call 'em Dogs. Dogs Are Loyal And They Run After Balls.