904The chap with the great face is Michael Ritchie, who sent this in from Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom. He wrote: “I studied Creative Writing at university and the screenwriting lecturer told the whole class this in our first year.

"I guess it's hardly encouraging to hear, but I think it was better than letting us all kid ourselves that we were all going to be the next Stephen King or J. K. Rowling. It's not disheartened me at all, in fact, it's made me even more keen to make a name for myself in the book world and leave my mark on the world.

"Everyone has something important to say and everyone has one good book in them. Except Dan Brown.”