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Michael Coleman
- questions and answers 
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1. Where did you get your
idea to write books about football and the World Cup?
Would-be authors are advised to write about what they know,
So, as I've always been a football fan, I did! |
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Who is your favourite footballer?
Trevor (now Sir Trevor) Brooking. Our school was near neighbours and I played against him a couple of times.
He must have picked up a few tips because he went on to
star for ... |
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3. What football team do you support?
... West Ham!
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4. Are you a good footballer
yourself and did you ever dream of becoming a famous player?
I wasn't bad. I was captain of my county team (Essex) and
had trials for an England Schoolboys team. And yes, of
course I dreamt of becoming a famous player. |
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5. Did you like school and what was your favourite subject?
I enjoyed school most of the time - especially games time
and play time! Apart from anything sporty my favourite
subjects were Maths and Physics. |
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6. Who was your favourite author/illustrator when
you were a child?
Author: Enid Blyton
Illustrator: whoever drew the pictures for 'Roy of the Rovers'
in the 'Tiger' comic.
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7. What books do you enjoy reading?
Nowadays, just about anything - from science to thrillers.
I'm usually reading three or four at once (but not
at the same time!) |
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8. Why did you want to
become a writer? and ... How did
your writing career begin?
I didn't, not at first. I used to teach computer science
at a university and my first book was a boring one about
computers. I livened it up by putting a few jokes in.
At the end I thought I'd try writing a few more things,
but this time forgetting about the computers and concentrating
on the jokes. After lots of failures I realised that
youngsters enjoy jokes more than adults and started
writing for them. Eighty books later, I'm
still doing it.
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9. What is a typical day for you?
Start at 9 am and finish at 5 pm - but with lots and lots
and lots of breaks in between.
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What advice would you give to want-to-be-authors?
Write the sort of thing you enjoy reading yourself. That
way the chances are that others will enjoy reading it
too - and if they don't at least you have had some fun!
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11. Which of
your own books do you like best and why?
I write both fact and fiction. The
Foul Football series are favourite fact books,
simply because they're about football. On the fiction
side, I'm just finishing a trilogy called The
Bearkingdom. They're dark and scary, quite
different to anything I've written before. |
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12. How long does it take to write your books?
It varies. A Foul
Football book takes between 4-6 months
divided between finding the facts, sorting them out,
writing the words ... and thinking up the awful jokes! |
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