NRR: Can you share with us how you
got started into writing?
When I was a kid, two children in
the family haunted me. I still have a picture of one of them, a
round-faced little boy who died when he was very young. His eyes follow
you round the room.
The other was an older boy who had
walked out of our house one day in 1887 and had never returned.
Eventually the two vanished boys
blended into Richard Knight, who sees a murder and then disappears in The
Vanished Child. I had to write about what happened to him.
