Carlos Hughes can't dance, can't sing, can't play an instrument, can't fix engines - can't do sod all really except write stories which he has done all his life - starting when he was at school where he would write 15 pages in 'creative writing' classes and instead of the teachers enthusing about his genius and productivity - they threatened him with detention if he ever exceeded two pages again. Been sacked from most jobs for insubordination, destroying of stock, equipment and property or just plain laziness and incompetence - was saved mid-life by TEFL and the booming Asian economies - which he based his first novel 'White Monkey' on. It might become a worldwide hit - it might need time - or - it might just not - he doesn't mind - there is more to come. Carlos Hughes lives alone in China, a state of affairs that is good for his writing projects.