Belgium is a country with a split personality.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

Belgium is a country with a split personality.

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.