I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

I studied literature design and fashion design.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.