Who are your favorite authors?
My favorite authors are: J.R.R. Tolkien, T.S & E.B.Whites, J.D. Salinger, Frank McCourt, John Steinbeck and David Foster Wallace.
When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
I spend my free time painting, sailing, kayaking and reading. When "working", I volunteer on a tall ship and restore/maintain our own fleet of wooden boats--(and one fiberglass boat named Sugaree).
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