| My hair colour: | Brown (and grey). | |
| My eye colour: | Grey. | |
| My shoe size: | 11 and a half. | |
| My star sign: | Libra. | |
| My favourite book when child: | Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding. | |
| My favourite fictional character: | The narrator of The Magic Pudding. | |
| Books that inspired me to become a writer: | Pretty well everything I read. | |
| My favourite author: | Too many to list. | |
| My ideal reading position: | In bed. | |
| My usual means of marking a place in a book: | A Post-It note. | |
| My favourite time of year: | Spring. | |
| My favourite time of day: | Coffee time in the morning. | |
| My best time for working: | Between breakfast and lunch. | |
| The first piece of work I was paid for was: | Washing-up in a bed-and-breakfast place. | |
| My favourite TV show: | Neighbours | |
| My favourite song: | 'Savwe The Last Dance for Me' by The Drifters. | |
| My favourite actor: | James Woods. | |
| The creature comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: | Whisky. | |
| My favourite sweet food: | Ginger cake. | |
| My favourite savory food: | Cheese. | |
| My typical bedtime is: | Midnight. | |
| My favourite year of childhood: | 9 | |
| My mousemat design: | Plain blue. | |
| The tidiest place in my home is: | The bathroom. | |
| The untidiest place in my home is: | The shed I write in. | |
| The working tool I would least like to do without: | My ballpoint pen. | |