The Word Cloud

Information

• Are you a ...?
  Unpublished writer (so far)
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  Historical fiction
  
  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)?
  Right now, George R. R. Martin
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  The Cement Garden, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Passion of New Eve, the Inspector Frost books, the Song of Ice and Fire series, Ham on Rye, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Billy Liar, A Million Little Pieces, The Pickwick Papers, A Kestrel for a Knave...
  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?
  Ten times? Why so little?
  
  Your ultimate writing ambition?
  To have a book turned into a film starring Sean Bean and/or Brian Blessed!
  Your worst habit?
  Giving up too easily.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  Everywhere - in the living room, on the bus, at work...
  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 love The Smiths.