1) Amalgamation of first part of first and last name. (My mind goes completely blank when asked to do something imaginative)

2) Female

3) 35, Sandwich, Kent

4) Possible, just as long as you keep the holywood types away from it. I'd love to see one.

5) Can't actually remember. Probably looked at in the library or bookshop somewhere around the time equal rites was published. I have a tendency to flick through interesting books to see what they're like.

6) Do not despise the snake for having no horns, for who is to say it will not become a dragon.