Who are your favorite authors?
Oh, gosh, so many to list here! But my go tos would be:
Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe, Michael Crichton, Madelaine L'Engle, Lawrence Block, Paul Zindel, John D. Fitzgerald, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, Beverly Cleary, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Mark Twain, Matthew Quick, J.K. Rowling, Mitch Albom, C.S. Lewis, Frank Peretti, Robert Heinlein, Roald Dahl, Piers Anthony, Judy Blume, Max Allen Collins, Raymond Chandler, E.B. White, Paula Danziger, and a host of other old school authors who helped me hone my writing chops in later life.
What got you started writing?
Funny--and true--story!
I moved to Page AZ, pop. 5568 in 1980, from some 2 million people in Queens. Culture shock for a kid of fourteen. Two years into my desert exile, and mouthing off one time too many to a school bus driver defending my sibling, that landed me in study hall / detention during the time I was supposed to be in band practice. With nothing to read during that month-long in-house suspension, I began writing. I not only found I enjoyed it tremendously, I discovered I was pretty good at it, and I haven't stopped since.
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