Who are your favorite authors?
That's a difficult question to answer after a half century of reading. The ones who have most influenced me are J. R. R. Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov.
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
The day job makes me get out of bed, but the writing gets me out of bed far earlier than I have to so I can write before going off to work. I want to spend time with my characters and see what they are up to before facing the usual people I see every day.
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