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• If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Comedy
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Omnivorous
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Julian Barnes & Magnus Mills
  And your seven all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  1. History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - J Barnes 2. Rubicon - T Holland 3. The History of the Countryside - O Rackham 4. Julien - G Vidal 5. 100 Years of Solitude - G G Marquez 6. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens 7. Secret History - Donna Tart
  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?
  Some self-editing
  
  Your ultimate writing ambition?
  I would love to be a full time writer of fiction novels, with occasional factual commissions. I've had several factual articles published in magazines/newspapers and I enjoy the research but I love the licence to twist fact into fiction in novels.
  Your worst habit?
  Getting started is hard but fine once I get going. Making a clear plot outline from the outset is tough too - I write as if walking through a thin mist, recognising routes & faces just in time but occasionally need to free myself from boggy mires
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  I have a room at home