I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

I love the idea of rectitude.

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.