The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Unpublished writer (so far)
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  General fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Thriller
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  James Clavell
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  James Clavell's Shogun, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code, Basil Davidson's Africa in History, Matthew Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization and Chris Fox's L.U.C.I in the sky.
  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?
  Finish all the manuscripts in my head.
  Your worst habit?
  Abandoning some of my old projects
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  Study or bedroom
  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 a Hip Hop website called Vinyl1980.com. It's one of the biggest in Africa.