Reading through your blogs are inspirational! Where do you get your influences from to write?

Wow, thank you :) Glad you enjoy them :) All my influences and inspirations come from real life experience or real life feelings, which I then transfer into writing. If its a longer work like a novel, the themes of the novel will reflect absolutely what has been happening in my life, but in metaphorical form, so that its almost an autobiography in a fantastical landscape. The same is true on a smaller scale with short stories, which usually are inspired by one particular event or feeling that...