The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Published author
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Literary 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)?
  Martin Amis, Maggie O'Farrell, Zoe Heller, Sophie Hannah
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  London Fields - Martin Amis Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Magus - John Fowles Demian - Hermann Hesse
  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?
  To publish a book that fulfils the twin goals of being critically acclaimed and selling like hotcakes.
  Your worst habit?
  Going off a novel at the 35,000 word stage and deciding I want to write something else instead...
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  Mostly 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 have two men in my life, although one of them is feline.