“In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things.”

English journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, since 2002

Jojo Moyes is an English journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. Born Pauline Sara Jo Moyes, she has been writing professionally since 2002 and is known for her romance novels and screen work. Her novels have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 28 languages. She is among the few writers to have won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award twice from the Romantic Novelists' Association, and she is also a number-one New York Times best-selling author.