The Word Cloud

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• What genre do you primarily write in?
  Thriller
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Fiction for children
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Terry Pratchett
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Small Gods - Terry Pratchett East of Eden - John Steinbeck Coot Club - Arthur Ransome Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams On Writing - Stephen King
  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?
  Publish a series based on my main character and as a result create some debate about a range of public health issues and make the world a better place.
  Your worst habit?
  Wasting time
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  In my office and on trains and ski holidays
  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 no cats, have never paraglided, rarely eat tinned fish,never work in the bath and don't live in Kettering. I have arthritic fingers, so if I type too hard I have to stop and think, possibly a useful side effect of arthritis.