Carly Wayne

Well, it wasn't the first story I read, but the first book that had a large impact on me was Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon. I was about twelve years old the first time I read it, and I was already in love with the tales of King Arthur and his knights. Mists of Avalon told the story from the women's point of view (something I had never seen before), with an emphasis on Morgaine and her initiation into the mysteries of Avalon. I was hooked! I loved the epic-scale of the story, and Marion Zimmer-Bradley's use of imagery and description pulled me into the mysteries, as if I were living the events myself. I remember thinking "Wow! I want to write a story like THAT!"

I like cozy mysteries, especially ones with a paranormal twist, and dry humor.

I absolutely loved Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series, and Louise Penny's Three Pines Mysteries.

The trilogy Chronicles of the One, by Nora Roberts was fantastic, and timely. It was kind of spooky, knowing it was published just a few months before the first reported case of COVID-19!