| My hair colour: | Black | |
| My eye colour: | Brown | |
| My shoe size: | 7 | |
| My star sign: | Both Aquarius and Pisces (my birthday is on the cusp, 19th Feb, so I usually read both star-signs then choose whichever sounds most optimistic) | |
| My favourite book when child: | The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall (no competition) | |
| My favourite fictional character: | Batman | |
| Books that inspired me to become a writer: | The Machine Gunners, A Wizard of Earhtsea by Ursula Le Guin, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend and almost everything by Stephen King. | |
| My favourite author: | Currently the Scottish novelist, Iain Banks | |
| My ideal reading position: | Sprawled on the floor with a pillow for my head | |
| My usual means of marking a place in a book: | Memory | |
| My favourite time of year: | Summer. I just wish I still got six weeks holiday. | |
| My favourite time of day: | Sunrise. Although I admit to not seeing too many of them, they're always wonderfully uplifting. | |
| My best time for working: | Usually through the night, after I've done everything else I'd wanted to do during the day. | |
| The first piece of writing I was paid for was: | A short story called 'The Boy, The Swede and the Clara'. | |
| My favourite TV show: | I prefer films. | |
| My favourite actor: | Clint Eastwood | |
| My favourite song: | Too many to mention. I love music. Possilby 'Creep' by Radiohead, or 'One Way' by the Levellers. I've got a list longer than my arm... Could even be 'heartbreak Hotel' by Elvis, or Burt Bacharach's 'Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head' or... | |
| My favourite food: | Kentucky Fried Chicken | |
| My typical bedtime is: | Way too late | |
| My favourite year of childhood (age 4-16): | Year Nine at school, 14ish. Mainly because of the friends I had and the mischief we used to get up to. | |
| The tidiest place in my home is: | My pet cockatiel's cage, because he (Baxter) is never in there. | |
| The untidiest place in my home is: | Everywhere else, because Baxter likes to follow me from room to room causing chaos and destruction wherever he goes. | |
| The working tool I would least like to do without: | My wordprocessor's spellcheck program. | |
| The creature comfort I would most unwillingly go without: | My Walkman. Have music, will travel.
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