Dear Jonathan Stroud,
I just finished reading PG yesterday. After the very last paragraph I flipped the page hoping there was more but when I realized it was over I cried. I kept re-reading the last two pages and now I have the last paragraph totally memorized. I hated the end of the book but at the same time I loved it because it did what no other book I have read has done. Now I must confess that your trilogy, while short like all series when you finish them, was the best series I have ever read (No offense to J.K Rowling but ending of Harry Potter wasn't as good as I had hoped) and I hope someday I would be able to write something as amazing as that. And I am very happy that I took the advice of a friend and read AoS. My questions for you are simple.

1.) How did you know you wanted to be a writer?

Thank you for answering my questions and changing my life with your book.

Hi there,

Many apologies for taking so long to reach your message!

I'm really pleased you liked the ending, and I'm proud to have had that effect on you. I think I've always wanted to be a writer, even when I was quite small. I think when I was about seven or eight I began to get interested in the idea of writing something that would be published, and the dream bubbled away inside me ever afterwards, even though I had no firm clue of (a) what I would write or (b) how I would combine it with a job. But when in my mid-20s I found myself writing my first novel in my spare time, it didn't come as a shock - it was the expression of a long-felt need!

All best wishes,

J