When I was ten, I read “White Fang” by Jack London and I knew that writing was for me. I sought out everything that I could find by London and read each work repeatedly over the next few years. My first stories of course, involved sentient animals and included lots of art work.  As I got older, real life and practical concerns put fiction writing on the back burner, yet I was always reading or writing something on my own time. 
	Compelling characters that cause you think about them long after you’ve read the story or watched the film are the best gifts a writer or an actor can bestow upon their audience. That’s where Richard Armitage comes into the equation for me.
	I love really good stories of all kinds but my first love is science fiction followed by historical fiction and fantasy.  I like Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Mary Shelley, Robert Graves, and Alexandre Dumas (If you haven’t read “The Three Musketeers” try it, don’t worry; it moves fast for such an old book because it was first published as a serial.) among many others too numerous to include here. 

***According to two different samples from "Pursuit Of The Cygnus Thief" Analyze My Writing asserts that I write like Ian Fleming and David Foster Wallace. I wonder what more samples might reveal. Would a sample of David Foster Wallace reveal that he too, wrote like another author?