My main influences are Stephen King, Janet Evanovich, Anne Rice, Dara Joy and Baroness Emma Orczy .  I've never read just one category of books because different genres of books give me new and fresh ideas. 

With my first book Isolated Dreamer: A Collection of Poetry and my second book The Suicide Logs: Last Journal of Jenny Bellhooks my main influence was the events in my current life.  I was on probably the worst string of bad jobs and my personal life could barely even qualify as a personal life at all.  They are both equally depressing and at times just downright horrifying but I had to get it out to the world before I allow the world to see what I've really been working on for the past 10 years. The first two books are just to get me started, I am more than confident once my other books are finished I'll finally hit the best sellers list.