How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.