The Word Cloud

Information

• What genre do you primarily write in?
  Thriller
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Crime
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Pulpy
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Dan Brown, Lee Child, Harlen Coben
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Tell No One (Coben) The Innocent (Coben) Angels and Demons (Brown) Deception Point (Brown) One Shot (Child) The Enemy (Child) Tactics of Mistake (GR Dickson)
  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 be a best selling author, what else?
  Your worst habit?
  Use of passive expressions. Due to many years editing technical articles and books.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  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?
  Published in The Times at 17. Downhill from then on. Discovered crime-thrillers about 10 years ago and with my scientific/logical background, realised I could construct some great thrillers. I have many stories in my head just waiting to be written.