![]() I wander round making too many cups of coffee. This makes it much easier to write then it was when they were babies, but I’m still very bad at getting on with work. I have three children, who are all now at secondary school. That first book was published 13 years ago, and since then I’ve written over 120 books – which still shocks me every time I say it. ![]() Quite often the trains were so full that I used to sit on the floor at the end of the carriage and write. I wrote that book on trains – I used to commute between Reading and London, and the half hour each way was my writing time. But after I’d named the characters and given them best friends, character flaws and guinea pigs, I knew I couldn’t give the idea to anyone else. I wasn’t supposed to write it at all, I was supposed to think about it a bit more and then suggest it to an author. But I came up with an idea in an editorial meeting and fell in love with it. ![]() I still didn’t want to be a writer though – I enjoyed editing so much. ![]() ![]() I started doing work experience at Scholastic Children’s Books at 15, and after university I basically hung around until they gave me a job… From then on I wanted to be an editor – so that I really could spend most of my day reading. That was when I realised there were people who came in between the author and the published book. I was about ten years old when I read a book with a mistake on the back cover. ![]()
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