We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.