Author Interview with Donna’s Book Blog

Thank you to Donna for having me on the blog. You can read the whole interview here:

When did you know that you wanted to be an author?

Hi Donna, thank you for being a part of the blog tour for We Are Animals!

I remember being set homework by my English teacher when I was about thirteen. We had to write a short story and I went to town on it. When my mate read my homework the next day, he joked that I’d, and I quote, ‘written it like it was a book.’ At thirteen, this was clearly a bad thing, but I’ve pretty much carried on writing since then; short stories, songs, stand-up comedy sets, ideas for plays… We Are Animals is my first attempt at a novel though, and whilst I love all writing, I’ve found writing a novel easily the most enjoyable.

What inspired you to write this book?

Writing a book was always something I was going to do at some point. When I went travelling with my wife, we kept a regular blog and I always liked the idea of creating some sort of a plot around it. We Are Animals is set in many of the countries we visited, and it has an exaggerated version of some of our experiences during our travels. When I went back and read the old blog, I noticed how much of it was focused on wildlife, and I wanted to get that into the book somehow. There are so many animals with their own little plots in We Are Animals, it’s like a children’s book for adults.

If you could sell this book in one sentence what would it be?

We Are Animals is a quirky, heart warming tale of lost love, unlikely friendships and fate. Oh, oh, and it’s cheap…