My greatest influences were Tolkien, Homer, my mother Stella who introduced me to the library and Shakespeare, my Uncle Mike who loved to write, CS Lewis, Chaucer, Greek and everyother kind of myth, Eddings, Icelandic Sagas, Niel Gaiman, comic books, and my YIaya (grandmother) who loved to tell me fairytales in Greek in iambic hexameter!
All my life, I've written and created new worlds. It's a place to play with philosophy, adventure and expand imagination beyond the mundane life in the here and now. My first novel Exiles of Dal Ryeas does just that more...