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  Unpublished writer (so far)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)?
  Shakespeare, Banana Yoshimoto, Neil Gaiman, Siri Hustvedt, Diana Wynne Jones, Charles de Lint, Barbara Pym, Josephine Tey, Jeff Lindsay, Virginia Woolf, Philip Kerr, Martin Millar
  And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), The Art of Murder (Jose Carlos Somoza), What I Loved (Siri Hustvedt), Forests of the Heart (Charles de Lint), 30,000 Mornings (Hiag Akmakjian), Fire and Hemlock (Diana Wynne Jones), Lonely Werewolf Girl (Martin Millar)
  What are your working habits when you write?
  Perfectly balanced
  
  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 reach people, and to make a living at it.
  Your worst habit?
  Under-writing.
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through