The Word Cloud

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• Are you a ...?
  Published author
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  General fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Other non-fiction
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Sophisticated
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  E.B. White, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, Tracy Chevalier
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Alice in Wonderland by C.S. Lewis, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead by Stephan A. Hoeller, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  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?
  Some self-editing
  
  Your ultimate writing ambition?
  Definitive book about Venice
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  On my computer in my apartment in Venice, and in different colored Mead Composition Books
  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?
  I like to snorkel, have a black Venetian cat named Cleopatra, and can recite Jabberwocky.