I have loved Thunderbirds forever. I can't remember a specific moment when it suddenly became clear, just the feeling that I've loved the characters, the stories and the explosions since I was a child. No-one else in my family can quite understand it, but a little eccentricity is to be desired.

I do remember buying Dinky toy Thunderbird 1 and 2 (with Thunderbird 4 inside - that was the best thing) from under the nose of a small boy at a jumble sale. I remember becoming the coolest aunt in the world by buying all the DVDs and actually watching them. And I remember complaining to Carlton that the Thunderbirds PC game I bought was the most awful waste of money, and 'did they have any idea how disappointed my (fictional) sibling was.' I got a watch and a jigsaw for my trouble.

Writing Thunderbird fan fiction is an easier question. I've written it even before I realised it was called fanfic. There was something about the characters that spoke to me and I wanted to take them out of the box and play with them again and again. If I didn't write it down, they bounced around inside my head day and night. I thought I was just weird. Then I discovered the internet...

The first full story I wrote was in a lovely long summer when I should have been studying for exams. I passed, but my priorities were obviously clear. This is the first time I've let anyone else read my scribblings. I am so humbled by the fact that other people are reading them and that they seem to enjoy them too. Thank you.