Stuff
Guy Macdonald Revealed
About Guy Macdonald
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What is your birthdate?:5/28
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High school and/or college:Judd School in Tonbridge, Kent
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Favorite movie:Alfred Hitchcock's Thirty Nine Steps.
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Family, friends, dogs, stories, boats, fishing, swimming, beasts.
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. "Go, and never darken my towels again."
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. Eating Matt's ice cream on a hot day in summer.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. Being re-incarnated as a lug-worm.
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. There.
- Q. With whom in history do you most identify?
- A. What's the name of that bloke who split the atom?
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. My dad.
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. This is probably a rubbish idea but...
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. Telling jokes.
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. Writing An Awfully Beastly Business with my two best friends.
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. My kitchen flaw. I tiled it myself.
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. The way the sunlight shines on my hair and dances in my eyes.
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. A firebelly dragon, king of the beasts.
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. The hair on the palms of my hands.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Ulf, because we invented him.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. Baron Marackai.
- Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?
- A. My Great Uncle Bert. "Don't gamble away your enormous fortune on the horses. Invest it wisely then leave it to your descendants."
On Books and Writing
- Q. How did you come to write Jungle Vampire?
- A. We decided to set The Jungle Vampire far away in the jungles of South America. Ulf has to track down this big, hairy and extremely dangerous predator, but the Baron is hot on its trail…
