Influences

• Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Graham Joyce, Ian McEwan, Charles deLint, JK Rowling, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alison Lurie, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima, Alice Waler, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Dan Simmons, Larry Brown, Paco Alhgren, Simon Van Booy, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Barry Unsworth, and many others!

Favorite Books

• A Tale of Two Cities, Flowers in the Attic, And Then There Were None, the Nightside series by Simon R. Green, Love Begins In Winter, all books by Clive Barker, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, all books by Harlan Coben, all books by Charles deLint, The Mentor's Gift, Women Who Run With the Wolves, all books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Thin Place, The Corrections, American Gods, Neverwhere, Roots, Lord of the Flies, all books by Laura Joh Rowland, the Harry Potter series, The Human Stain, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Franny and Zoey, Catcher in the Rye, Eaters of the Dead, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, The Alchemist, A Miracle of Catfish, Big Bad Love, and many, many, many more . . . .

Favorite Authors

• Oh good lord, where to begin?????

What I'm Reading

• Under the Dome by Stephen King

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• Tales From a Goth Librarian - Finalist for 2009 USA Book News Awards