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Over the past thirty years I’ve pretty much jumped from one project to the next. I even took a laptop…
You kiss boys. You stay up whispering to your girl friends about kissing boys. You do not think that you…
I choose to walk through Victorian parks with Edwardian characters, rather than real-life friends. Sometimes the characters hold my hand.…
I was brought up in a loving working-class family. This instilled a level of safety that allows me to investigate…
Inspiration and good writing don’t just come from sitting at a desk, no matter how good the view. Ideas come…
My friend’s untimely death galvanised me: I went on an Arvon course, primed by the book she had told me…
I think there’s always an element of choice for a writer — there is a secret (or not so secret)…
When they asked if I’d consider writing a Doctor Who drama for them I was excited but alarmed. I’d never…
More recently, I self-published my first series in the States. I was the proverbial old dog, learning new tricks! I…
I’m busy being a producer’, I said, ‘but hope, at some point, to take a career break and dedicate myself…
Where Keats goes into rhapsody over the many forms of beauty in nature, a Fariduddin Attar examines the human ego…
I found myself trying to get into a prison, past a guard who looked me up on Wikipedia on his…
