The Word Cloud

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• Are you a ...?
  Writer published in mags, etc
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Sci-fi
  
  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)?
  Terry Pratchett, Patricia Cornwell, JRR Tolkein, Philippa Gregory; Lionel Shriver
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Guards! Guards!; The Lord of The Rings; The God of Small Things; Wuthering Heights; Moving Pictures; some other embarrassing ones that I'm not going to admit to publicly!
  What are your working habits when you write?
  Procastinatory
  
  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 one (one? All!) of my novels on the big screen.
  Your worst habit?
  Allowing fear of failure to get in the way of creative flow.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
  
  Where do you write?
  Anywhere and everywhere. I prefer my sofa, though.
  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'm Marcus Antonius' biggest fan. And Cleopatra's. I'm a born-again Trekkie and I know a couple of words in Vulcan and I'm not even ashamed of that! I couldn't be happy if I wasn't writing. I'm *thisssss* close to finishing my doctoral thesis.