His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

Everyone is reading what they like and that's a good thing.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.

They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.