Help with question for famous author

[cailin maith]

Hi CM

Have you got Spod into shape yet? How is baby CM-Spod? The facebook piccies look great!

Almost

Baby is grand I'm distraught though.... he is at nursery for a whole day and it's killing me

[BrilloPad]

Almost

Baby is grand I'm distraught though.... he is at nursery for a whole day and it's killing me

Obviously very difficult for you

Of course he will have a great day - then act all distressed when you turn up and try to make you feel guilty! If you feel too guilty try more cocktails.....

[cojak]

And that, Ladies and Gents, is the way to deal with uncouth plonkers - sail straight on past them with disdain...

[d000hg]

How do you feel about selling out to Hollywood?

Do you hope this film translation will be better done than The Hunger Games?

[Ketchup]

Do you ever plan on writing a book that doesn't have the same predictable plotline?

[chef]

Hi Lee, I've always been a huge fan of yours, especially your earlier work in The Fall Guy and it's quite surprising that you don't look anything like you did on TV, what was it like wearing that jetpack?

[Epiphone]

Why Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher? The character in the books is nothing like Tom Cruise....

Two answers.

1. Money.
2. In interviews Mr Child (or Jim, as his mum calls him) has said Reacher's size is more an allegory for him being an unstoppable force of nature and Cruise's movie stardom is the same thing. Or some such twaddle. See 1.

[speling bee]

Ask him what was the most important thing to have happened to him in his life.

[hugebrain]

This I do like - if authors get more people reading, then that can't be bad.

Unless it's the sort of book that teaches mentally disturbed people about head butting I suppose.

[NickFitz]

I'm distraught though.... he is at nursery for a whole day and it's killing me

At least you've got the baby to keep you company