The Word Cloud

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• Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Melvyn Bragg, Ben Okri, Helen Dunmore
  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 write the book that changes lives, opens hearts and makes the world happy. I wouldn't say no to being a dame of the British Empire.
  Your worst habit?
  I've just given that up.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  At my desk in the smallest room in the house - yes, it is smaller than the toilet.
  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 believe in the muses, the spirit of inspiration, knowledge-by-serendipity, the fairy in the library, creative grace, divine beauty and the harmony of the spheres. Unhappily, I also believe my work is untouched by all that until I've done at least ten