| My hair colour: | Mid-brown, what there is of it. | |
| My eye colour: | Blue | |
| My shoe size: | 10 | |
| My star sign: | Gemini. | |
| My favourite book when child: | The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. | |
| My favourite fictional character: | Steerpike from the Gormenghast trilogy. | |
| Books that inspired me to become a wirter: | The Phantom Tollbooth, Lewis Carroll's 'ALice' books, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. | |
| My favourite author: | Anne Tyler and Cormac McCarthy. | |
| My ideal reading position: | On my back, in bed or bath. | |
| My usual means of marking a place in a book: | A book-mark - I hate dog-eared books! | |
| My favourite time of year: | Late summer. | |
| My favourite time of day: | Early evening. | |
| My best time for working: | Afternoon. | |
| The first piece of writing I was paid for was: | 'Ice', a short story, which was a reworking of Andersen's 'Snow Queen'. | |
| My favourite TV show: | The Simpsons. | |
| My favourite song: | 'Hello, Goodbye' by The Beatles. | |
| My favourite actor: | Robert de Niro. | |
| The creaure comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: | Kettle - for gallons of black coffee. | |
| My favourite sweet food: | Chocolate. | |
| My favourite savory food: | Curry (lamb madras). | |
| My typical bedtime is: | 11:30 | |
| My favourite year of childhood: | 11 | |
| My mousemat design: | Plain blue. | |
| The tidiest place in my home is: | The bathroom. | |
| The untidiest place in my home is: | My study. | |
| The working tool I would least like to do without: | My word processor. | |