Any Story You Write About

Animals Are Sentient, Intelligent, Perceptive, Funny And Entertaining. We Owe Them A Duty Of Care As We Do To Children.

Access To Books And The Encouragement Of The Habit Of Reading: These Two Things Are The First And Most Necessary Steps In Education And Librarians, Teachers And Parents All Over The Country Know It. It Is Our Children's Right And It Is Also Our Best Hope And Their Best Hope For The Future.

Remember To Write For Yourself, Not For A Market And Give Yourself Time To Develop Your Own Style, Your Own Voice. It Takes A Lifetime. Enjoy It!

I Write Fiction. I Make Things Up, It's What I Do.

I Spend Months, Sometimes Years, Doing What I Call Dreamtime, Weaving It Together Inside My Head. But When I Actually Feel That The Egg Of My Story Is Ready To Hatch, Then I Can Write It In Three Months. Then I Know The Landscape And The People Well And From The Inside, But I Don't Necessarily Know Where The Story Is Going To Take Us.