A year or so after Before I Go to Sleep came out in the US a reader from Texas sent me an email. ‘Me and the ladies in my book group met last night and we were discussing whether you were a man or a woman. Can you enlighten us?’
Now, leaving aside the fact that doing an image search would’ve been a great deal easier than finding my email address, that issue (still) comes up a fair bit. And it’s because I use my initials, of course. S J Watson, not Steve, or Steven.
But why did I choose to do that? Well, there are two main reasons…
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