Liz Pichon: 'I thought the Tom Gates series would end really quickly'

The author and illustrator on dyslexia, doodling and finding new things to write about Liz Pichon never thought that being a writer was a viable career path for her. The author and illustrator of Tom Gates - the instantly recognisable stories of the eponymous schoolboy which have sold more than 11m copies and been adapted for television and stage - was excellent at drawing, but didn't believe that words were her thing. "I loved writing stories when I was at school, but I was just hopeless at spe...