So happy for you! (Not.)

When I meet people for the first time, I usually don’t tell them that I’ve written a novel – let alone that it’s being turned into a film. This is because I don’t see myself as an ‘author’, or that I think this was the single greatest achievement of my life. I would hope that this is one small thing in a list of many things I’ve done – mostly with minimal to zero degrees of success – and that it’s not the only thing I’m going to do in life.

That doesn’t mean I don’t think it was an achievemen...