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• Are you a ...?
  Published author
  
  What genre do you primarily write in?
  General fiction
  
  If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
  Sci-fi
  
  Are your reading habits ...?
  Other
  
  Who is your favourite author(s)?
  Connie Willis, Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Dean Koontz, Jennifer Holly MacDonald
  And your seven all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
  Get back to you
  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?
  People get something good and fun out of reading my work, enough that they don't mind paying me for it.
  Your worst habit?
  Self bashing
  Your opinion on the books industry?
  Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through
  
  Where do you write?
  everywhere
  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 am here in the service of the planet not the people. My interests are not beliefs and my curiousity is not commitment. I am an explorer in this life. I have no desire to create a small world of dogma and superstition around myself or others.