I've always been a reader and a writer.

What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

No happiness in the writer, no happiness in the reader.