I think it’s needless for me to say that being a writer also makes me a lover of books. As a child, I was swung into alternate realities — envisioning characters and the worlds that they lived in. From the likes of Roald Dahl and his disturbing witches and giants to books where I traveled across the seas to countries I never thought I’d have a chance to go to. I always believed that my joy came from this sense of...