I've been a writer all my life, and while my recent forays into the wonderful world of professional writing have been non-fiction (hey, it pays the bills!) my passion is humerous and supernatural fiction and poetry.  I've been most influenced by the classics - Kipling, Keats, Tennyson, and Wodehouse - but I believe that, for better or worse, we are influenced by every book we read.  I read because I love it; I writer because I'm driven to it.