I’m impressed with your imagination more than that of any author I follow. What do you do to feed that imagination, to create such original characters and stories?

This is a bit of a hard one, because I don’t particularly feel like I do anything special.  I read (though less than I used to due to time, and I’m getting much pickier), I also like films, though again, I’m getting much pickier. I don’t really watch TV at all. I probably get maybe a third to half my book ideas in dreams, so those I cannot take even the illusion of credit for! The other ideas are split between the ones that come very rapidly to the ones that grow more slowly, but they all develop without any interference from me, at least until I reach the stage of serious plotting, so I think all the credit lies with the Holy Spirit for these as well!