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Influences

I've been a voracious reader since I was four years old, so I'd have to start with Maurice Sendak and Laura Ingals Wilder. I have a tattoo of William Shakespeare on my back, so he must be given some credit. Right now I'm eating up Dashiell Hammett and Raymon Chandler. My women's fiction was heavilly influenced by chemo drugs, and my memoirs are informed by the people around me. I've been blessed with a succession of fabulous editors and learned something profound from each of the extraordinary people I've worked with as a ghostwriter.