I was asked this week a series of questions from Watkins Books for their 'Meet the Author' interview page for their magazine and website. Here are the questions, and my brief answers: Which books and author inspired you to start writing? To be truly honest - none. I started to write before I began seriously to read. I wrote short stories when I was a little boy, yet I didn’t start to read until my mid-late teens. I started reading poetry before I read fiction. I especially loved the poems [...]