I've been writing since I was a boy in Flatbrookville, New Jersey, a town of, perhaps, 400 people that no longer exists.  I've read all my life, a lot of science fiction, but not exclusively.  I loved (still love) Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradburry.  Orson Scott Card.  I became very annoyed by Heinlein.

I devoured Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide books.

Reading Samuel Delany's Dhalgren taught me that you can write surrealism.

Not entirely a geek, I also read Shakespear, Christopher Fry, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, among other dramatists.  

My father Rowell Hoff is a (brilliant) poet and from him I learned a love of words.  He's sort of dry.  I get my boisterous energy from my mother, who was Italian and a bohemian.

Was a Webbie Awards 2009 Official Honoree for Best Writing for Poor Paul.

That Would Be Me (dot net)
Gently subversive ramblings.

Tips On Writing
Where my writing partner and I post thoughts and information about the process of writing.

Poor Paul
A young man moves away from home and winds up living with one roommate who’s annoyingly smart and another who’s a sex-obsessed, neat-freak alcoholic. His only escape is through outrageous fantasies.