The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Writer published in mags, etc
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Fiction for children
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  General Fiction
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Philip Pullman
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Northern Lights, Lord of the Rings, Lovely Bones, The Gargoyle, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, - and so many more
  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 balance my journalism with published fiction. It's good for the soul sometimes just to make stuff up.
  Your worst habit?
  Arrogance - although it's not too much of a problem as I'm never wrong
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  At my desk
  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 live in North Yorkshire with a menagerie of animals - hamsters who eat curtains, cats who pee on manuscripts, & dogs who steal my lunch. We spend an unhealthy amount of time making up stories and digressing from serious conversation into utter fantasy.