Well, I may as well jump on the bandwagon and list my writing influences.

Early (adolescence through high school)

Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, Stephen King

Medium (college)

John Kessel, James Patrick Kelly, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Swanwick, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe, Terry Bisson, Elmore Leonard

Current (post-undergrad)

Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, Charles de Lint, Chuck Palahniuk, China Mieville, Graham Joyce, Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Karen Joy Fowler, Roddy Doyle, Kelly Link, Ray Vukcevich

I'm sure I've left some out, but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Like I say in my bio, I read fairly widely in the field and without, and hopefully, this melange of influences will round my writing out.

I've a busy week ahead, so I probably won't get much writing done, fiction-wise that is. I have two novel outlines to critique for my class Wednesday, two reviews to write for Green Man Review by Wednesday night, and two short stories to critique for Cup-a-Prose Thursday night. And somewhere in there, I'll have to get some more work done on my own novel outline. Man oh man, it never lets up.

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Now Reading:
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

Stories Out to Publishers:
9

Novel Word Count:
18,800