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- "Actually I moved to New Jersey in 1980 and didn't discover Chatham until 1990, by ..."
- "Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It ..."
- "And though I've lived in the States for over 25 years and am now an ..."
- "And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a ..."
- "Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore. "
- "At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful ..."
- "Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, ..."
- "But publishers are in the business of making profits, so they love getting two books ..."
- "I did a TV series for the British History Channel a few years ago and ..."
- "I don't have a mentor. "
- "I get asked to appear on television - at the moment I have two invitations ..."
- "I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest ..."
- "I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable ..."
- "I love living in Chatham. "
- "I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't ..."
- "I start early - usually by 5 am, and work through to 5 pm, with ..."
- "I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that ..."
- "I took time off last year to sail the Atlantic, and if I got more ..."
- "I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it ..."
- "I'd like to cut it down to three books in two years instead of two ..."
- "I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet ..."
- "I'm a success inasmuch that I enjoy my life, which is an enormous blessing and ..."
- "I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to ..."
- "In the end their appeal is not necessarily the history, but the quality of the ..."
- "It just so happens that I write books, and I'm amazingly lucky that the books ..."
- "It's better than 9 to 5 because I'm my own boss so I can take ..."
- "It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to ..."
- "Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the ..."
- "Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take ..."
- "Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly ..."
- "Not sure what I'd so with a notebook other than swat flies. If I want ..."
- "Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than ..."
- "One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm ..."
- "Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon ..."
- "So far it's 43 books in 25 years. "
- "So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped ..."
- "Television is a young person's medium. "
- "The discrepancy is entirely based, I think, on the fact that I write best when ..."
- "The one thing I will not do is read other peoples' unpublished work. The reason ..."
- "Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come ..."
- "We have a gaff-rigged topsail cutter, which sounds much grander than she really is, but ..."
