As a child I was lucky enough to have been given unlimited access to books. Through those books I travelled across time and space and, for a time, became those people about whom I read.
Though I went through a brief period of rebellion against my artistic parents during which I toyed with the idea of medical school, eventually I gave up the stats classes and dissection kit and turned back to books - writing them, reading them, collecting them, reviewing them, and selling them.
My work is influenced by everything - that is one of the joys of being a writer - the world is full of stories more...