being an author was no longer going to be just a dream but a reality and a career? Seriously -- I've written things all my life. I once wrote a pantomime for a dance company. I contributed a terrible sketch for a stage Revue. I devised a script adaptation of the lives of Gilbert and Sullivan through their music (actually staged). I wrote a column in an antique magazine about funny things that happened on the way to the Antique Fair, and another about the antique markets in London. I reviewed art exhibitions and edited a motor magazine. Stuff like that. But when we retired from our business, I was confronted with the horrible truth I would be home all day with nothing to do but the housework! Consequently I sat down and wrote my travel odyssey about Greece "Make Mine a Moussaka" and then went on to novels. Now I can't stop... (Mmm, yum, moussaka would've been nice.) What is the hardest part of writing for you? It's the terrible 'info dump.' Being a Virgo I need to have everything set out and explained -- so I am continually criticised for too much info gumpf. (Ah, yes, a fellow Virgo. I hear ya, Helen.) If someone was to write your biography, what do you think the title should be? "Aphrodite in Disguise" What question have you always wanted to be asked in an interview? How would you answer that question? Q: "Now that you have reached 100,000 book sales,