The Word Cloud

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• Are you a ...?
  Writer published in mags, etc
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  General fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Travel
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Sebastian Faulks, Johnathan Raban, Paul Theroux
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Passage to Jeanau, Johnathan Raban The Happy Isles of Oceana, Paul Theroux Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas A Childs Garden of Verse. RL Stevenson On the Road, Jack Kerouac The Diaries of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend
  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 see the sequel to the novel I am currently writing published
  Your worst habit?
  Heading for the fridge when my mind is blocked
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  On a squashy sofa overlooking the sea
  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 am a sailor, and keep our 40' sloop in Corfu where we have a small house in an olive grove. I enjoy sea kayaking and hill walking with my husband, I also paint, take photographs and study vernacular architecture. I love to eat out with friends and fam