can I have your autograph?" A: "Of course. Would you like it in black felt pen across your back?" Fun stuff... What does your protagonist think about you? Would he or she want to hang out with you, the author, his/her creator. I don't think any of my protagonists would want to hang out with me. For instance they wouldn't know if I had a one of those pepper spray things in my bag (like Stephanie Plum) or whether I was toting something more lethal. They know only too well that I am able to kill them off willy-nilly. And as I'm somewhat ditzy, this could happen at any time. If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional, with whom would it be? I think it would be with the young Julie Andrews. I always wanted to sing Maria in the "Sound of Music." If I said to you, "Just entertain me for five minutes, I'm not going to talk," what would you do? (Oh dear! This answer, following on from the sex scene above has me really scared.) What was the best thing before sliced bread? My grandmother's jam sponge. And in case you are wondering about when we first sliced bread... In 1912, a jeweller named Otto Frederick Rohwedder began working on the world's first bread slicer. Several years, and many unsuccessful models, later he devised a machine to slice bread AND also wrap