Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.