J.D. Salinger was the author who first inspired me to someday write something quirky like my first novel, "Hell Year." I loved the way his main characters poked fun of themselves, and how he told the story of "The Catcher In The Rye" in first person through Holden Caulfield.
Despite an uncanny knack to write sing-song poems in the seventies for not only myself but for friends in English class, I never thought of becoming a writer until the early nineties. I was never much of a reader as a youngster but became an omniverous one in the eighties, devouring titles by Stephen King, Dean more...
