Q & A's

Latest Q & A's

I am privileged to have so many of you send through your questions about my work – thank you. I am afraid that I will not be able to answer all of them, but please still send your questions and I will do my very best to answer as many as I can.

Question:

I'm a budding author trying to find a way to get publishers to look at my work. My question is, how did you manage to get your first book published?

Asked on 04/04/2012 04:39:04

Answer:

I suppose I was just lucky. You have to be talented, and you have to work hard, but you have to be lucky too. No two of those qualities are any good without the third one, but the only one you can do anything about is the hard work. So – work hard, and good luck. (I’m assuming you’re already talented).

Question:

Will Lyra and Will ever meet again, and does will ever fix the knife, and what exactly are Specters?

Asked on 04/04/2012 01:54:43

Answer:

I don’t know about Lyra and Will, but I very much doubt it. As for Specters, they were a way of talking about certain mental states such as depression and self-hatred.

Question:

Have you ever wrote a book or had an idea for a book inspired by your dreams. I meant dreams when you are sleeping. :) Another thing, have you ever been in a lucid dream? Which can be very great idea to create a fantasy world.

Asked on 27/03/2012 19:42:14

Answer:

I’ve only been inspired by a dream on a very few occasions, and nothing very much came of it. And I do occasionally have lucid dreams, but I seem to lose all sense of taste and structure and proportion when I’m in that state. I’ve never managed to make one into a coherent story.

Question:

Do you have any idea when the book of dust will be finished? how far along are you? HUGE HUGE fan! -Jack Stephenson

Asked on 25/03/2012 07:13:26

Answer:

It’ll be finished when I write the words THE END. But seriously, I am well into it now and I can see the structure of the whole thing, which was difficult for me to see for a long time.

Question:

On one of the book covers for the subtle knife, there is a picture of a leopard. Is there any reason for this? Or is there just a random leopard?

Asked on 22/03/2012 00:14:06

Answer:

Nothing is random. I expect one of the children’s daemons was temporarily in the form of a leopard.