My hair colour:	Auburn.
My eye colour:	Brown.
My shoe size:	4.
My star sign:	Taurus.
My favourite book when child:	Heidi.
My favourite fictional character:	Kipper the Dog, followed closely by Chris Guthrie in Sunset Song.
Books that inspired me to become a writer:	All those (and there are quite a few) where the girl grows up to be a writer, against the odds. Alan Garner's fantasies, Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, and a hundred others.
My favourite author:	So many. Alan Garner, Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, George Mackay Brown.....
My ideal reading position:	Anyhow, anywhere.
My usual means of marking a place in a book:	Criminal - I turn down corners.
My favourite time of year:	The week the leaves begin to burn.
My favourite time of day:	Early morning/ late at night.
My best time for working:	As above.
The first piece of work I was paid for was:	Serving in my uncle's ice cream van, age 7. First published: newspaper feature, paid £50.
My favourite TV show:	Frasier.
My favourite song:	Impossible question! Love and Money's 'Walk The last Mile', if I have to choose.
My favourite actor:	Johnny Depp.
The creature comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish:	Glass of wine in the bath at the end of the day.
My favourite sweet food:	Nutella on toast.
My favourite savory food:	Buttered toast.
My typical bedtime is:	Midnight.
My favourite year of childhood:	4; unstructured freedom.
My mousemat design:	None. Just black.
The tidiest place in my home is:	My bedroom - just Feng Shuied it.
The untidiest place in my home is:	Wherever my 5 year old has just been.
The working tool I would least like to do without:	Pens that work.