I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
I started writing stories in my spare time.
Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.