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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.

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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that’s one more good book that I’ve helped along… and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

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In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

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With the ‘Old Kingdom’ trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

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I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

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I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in ‘The Court Jester’ or ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ or James Stewart in ‘Winchester ’73.’ But I also like a lot of modern films.

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I don’t watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like ‘Dr. Who’, ‘The Goodies’, and ‘Get Smart.’

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Unlike the stereotypical author, I’ve never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I’ve been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

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