Stamp!

I love writing books. I love them being published. I really hate signing them.

That's not because I don't love being asked to sign - I mean, unless you're someone for whom it's an dailyoccurrence, I can't see it being anything less than exciting. Someone bought my book! And they like my work enough to want my signature!

But writing by hand is painful and difficult. When I had to do it regularly, I had chronic hand pain that I didn't really realise wasn't normal. Writing more than a couple of...