I read Bram Stoker's Dracula at age 13 and never looked back. From then on, I read voraciously about vampires and the paranormal. Stephen King was my idol for many years, then Anne Rice and Robert McCammon. As I grew older, I began to read Christian Fiction thrillers from Ted Dekker, Bill Myers and Frank Peretti. I would say that nowadays, my style is a eclectic combination of thes authors; with my own particular brand of tongue-in-cheek humor thrown in for good measure.