What has been your biggest writing influence? What aspect of your novels do you consider the most "important?"

Warren Dean Growing up, my favourite stories were always adventure stories; from Enid Blyton to The Hardy Boys and Willard Price, and later on to the likes of Alastair Maclean and Wilbur Smith. I am also a big fan of the historical adventure stories of H. Rider Haggard. When I started reading sci-fi and fantasy, I realized that many of these novels were adventure stories too.
So the stories that I write have a significant adventure element to them, although I wouldn't say that this is the "most important" aspect. In my mind, they are a blend of sci-fi and adventure in equal measure, and I have had reviewers say that non-sci-fi readers would enjoy my novels as much as sci-fi geeks would.

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