The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Unpublished writer (so far)
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Historical fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Fantasy
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Bernard Cornwell, David Gemmell
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Catch 22, A Confederacy of Dunces, Shawshank Redemption, Cold Mountain, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
  What are your working habits when you write?
  Disciplined
  
  Are you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?
  Prefer to let rip and edit afterwards
  
  Your ultimate writing ambition?
  Work taken up by major publisher.
  Your worst habit?
  Sending it off before revising ten times.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  In winter, in a barn, in summer, in a hammock.
  What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?
  Ex-Army, prone to sporadic outbursts of gardening, but only in the summer.