10 Questions with Author and Travel Writer Ben Hatch (@BenHatch )
This Author Spotlight features author and Travel Writer Ben Hatch (below with daughter Phoebe and son Charlie). Ben lives in Brighton, England with his wife and children. Ben is also the author of the novels The Lawnmower Celebrity , The International Gooseberry , and the travel guides Frommer's England with your Family (with his wife, Dinah) , Frommer's Britain for Free (also with his wife, Dinah) , and Frommer's Scotland with your Family (also with his super-uber-talented wife, Dinah) . 1. How did you get into writing? I started off as a newspaper reporter on The Bucks Herald. I became a newspaper reporter imagining it was a natural entry into novel writing, having read too many blurbs in the back of 1960s Penguin classics. After ten years as a reporter covering fetes, cats stuck up trees and pictures of tall sunflowers, it became clear no editor was going to ring me...