I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.