It’s not like the barman checks…) Necessary writing/creativity tool … There’s a pub very close but I’m not allowed in it unless I have achieved my daily target. I go there with my dog for a few days to get my word count up. … is my house in the country, in Oxfordshire. What followed – a book deal, getting the advance copies, seeing it in bookshops – was wonderful, but not as wonderful as the first time that someone who didn’t know me read it and liked it. That was Silvia Molteni from the London literary agency Peters Fraser Dunlop, who immediately signed me as a client. …was when someone other than my wife and daughter (I strongly suspected they were just being polite) read the book and loved it. I wrote this book because I was returning to the UK after two years in Sweden, and people were going to ask me, “So – did you write the book you were talking about.” (See answer 1 above) Best moment … Time Traveling With A Hamster I wrote this book because … Why wouldn’t you? Mind you, I’m not one of your book obsessives who reads all the time, and nor do I read especially fast. (It’s always easier not to write.) My career as a television producer was going nowhere – and that’s an understatement – so I was heading into my fifties with no job. I write because I ran out of excuses not to. The Children’s Book Review | OctoI write because …
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