'Just write it.'
'I was brought up with this idea that I had this crazy relative that founded her own religion. she attracted quite a substantial following at the time, and this informs the book. That idea of cults, and how they can exert their power...
I just think that women and the way they relate to each other in families is very influential in our lives. This thing of how women influence each other through the generations, I think it is an important relationship to a lot of people...
I've always written, notes and fragments and short stories and ideas, but you don't know at 18 that you are going to go off and be a writer - well I didn't anyway. Then I had children and a really good career in television. I reached a point where my life was freeing up a bit and it was a good time to pursue it...
It's good not to think too far ahead. If you have got a story that you feel you want to write, just write it.'
Kate Hamer, whose 21st century 'Little Red Riding Hood', The Girl in the Red Coat, is tipped to be a bestseller, in the Independent on Sunday