I've always been in awe of the fantastic worlds that our imaginative minds can take us. It started with comic books and continued on through fantasy and science fiction. Some of my favorite writers and influences have been Chris Claremont, Angus Wells, Margaret Weiss, Tracy Hickman, and Orson Scott Card.

To me writing isn't so much creating stories from scratch, as much as transferring to paper the characters that are born in my mind.  I absolutely love when a protagonist has to overcome nearly insurmountable odds to achieve victory.