The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Unpublished writer (so far)
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Fantasy
  
  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)?
  Madeleine l'Engle
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  A Wind in the Door. Madeleine l'Engle Beloved. Toni Morrison The Owl Service. Alan Gardner The Princess and the Goblin. George Macdonald Red Moon, Black Mountain. Joy Chant The Poisonwood Bible. Barbara Kingsolver Middlemarch. George Eliot.
  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 sort of books people want to keep.
  Your worst habit?
  Making career-threating decisions.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  In bed
  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 took up family history as a relaxation from writing novels. Now I'm writing novels about researching family history. Can't keep away from it.