The Word Cloud

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• If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Crime
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Godfrey Higgens
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  A Murder of Quality Trustee in the Tool Room Anacalypsis (The Saitic Isis) The Lost Light The Gulag Archipelago Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy The Spy who came in from the Cold
  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?
  To be a relatively poor selling author in the US and making lots of money from it :-)
  Your worst habit?
  Lack of perseverance.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  Mainly on holiday.
  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 have had several quite different careers - from earning my living as a studio photographer to driving a taxi for 5 years. I have also waited tables; worked in a vineyard; been a photographer for the national press (freelancing); and retrained as a teac