Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

I really fell in love with Africa.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.