I’m talking to grown-ups tonight, which is a lot harder work than talking to children. My friend Andrew Taylor, the crime fiction author, and I will be talking about making a living from writing at the Coleford Festival of Words. I don’t think I can prepare for it. We’ll do a questions and answers mostly. Anyone coming,, knows what they want to know. I suppose I’d better say something about how I got to be where I am today. I always expect the book police to come and arrest me for false pretences when I do a session like tonight! Apparently most authors feel the same. Can’t quite understand how we got to be the chosen ones – all the hard work doesn’t come into it.

I also be doing a session on creative planning for grown-ups on Saturday. So if you’ve got an idea and don’t know how to get started, why not come along?