'You'll have to get used to this,'...

said Bob Finlayson, photographer for The Australian newspaper, arranging me against bits of picturesque fencing outside the Writing Room. I'll have to also learn to keep my eyes open when the camera clicks, and practise a non-wooden smile. Or just any kind of smile, really, when there's a camera around.

The profile, by Rosemary Neill for the Review section, will come out in mid-December.