What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
The day is an unknown quantity. You need to get out there to find out what is waiting for you.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was born in a farming district in Kenya, transposed to a suburb of Johannesburg and finally a mining town in the Transvaal (SA). I never had a chance to make a lot of friends. My friends were the people that walked the pages of the books I read.
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