P.D. Workman
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton - one of my first exposures to the lives of youth gangs or social issues
Anything by Dick Francis - I love the level of heart-pounding tension, sympathetic characters, the complex mystery
The Pigeon, Jay Bennett - like S.E. Hinton, a journey into the world of the young offender - love the hard-hitting bare bones dialogue
The Hobbit, LOTR, Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien - okay, so that's five books at once, but I love the whole journey from mythology to epic fantasy and a personal journey
There are so many other writers and books that have touched me and improved my writing. My mom's Agatha Christie and Mary Stuart collections and my dad's Louis L'Amour and Rex Stout. Incident at Hawk's Hill. Jane Goodall's books. The stacks of YA fiction that I read through the school library. Jack London. Hard-hitters like Jack Higgins and Desmond Bagley. Softer genres like Amish romance and Cozy mysteries. Today's popular YA like the Twilight series, Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner and fantasy like Harry Potter, Eragon, Fablehaven, and Septimus Heap. I love to read and I'm always getting new ideas and improving my own writing a bit at a time.
Anything by Dick Francis - I love the level of heart-pounding tension, sympathetic characters, the complex mystery
The Pigeon, Jay Bennett - like S.E. Hinton, a journey into the world of the young offender - love the hard-hitting bare bones dialogue
The Hobbit, LOTR, Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien - okay, so that's five books at once, but I love the whole journey from mythology to epic fantasy and a personal journey
There are so many other writers and books that have touched me and improved my writing. My mom's Agatha Christie and Mary Stuart collections and my dad's Louis L'Amour and Rex Stout. Incident at Hawk's Hill. Jane Goodall's books. The stacks of YA fiction that I read through the school library. Jack London. Hard-hitters like Jack Higgins and Desmond Bagley. Softer genres like Amish romance and Cozy mysteries. Today's popular YA like the Twilight series, Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner and fantasy like Harry Potter, Eragon, Fablehaven, and Septimus Heap. I love to read and I'm always getting new ideas and improving my own writing a bit at a time.
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