Top Influences In Recent Years

The other day I wrote a post about two Irish writers who have deeply influenced me as both a reader and a writer in recent years. Someone asked me if I would share list of writers that have influenced my own work and explain why they were so influential. I decided it wouldn’t hurt. Mind you the list is always changing, growing, shrinking etc.

Here are thirteen (all I had time for)contemporary influences to my work in no particular order:

Stephen King. Kings early work was always a favorite o...