Genre

I read mostly action-adventure, with a smattering of other genres (mostly niche crime thrillers). So I've been writing historical action adventure, mostly because I'd read Bernard Cornwell's 'Sharpe' series and had a passionate interest in horsemen of the same period (which is too long a story to go into).

Whether I'll continue writing the same era once I've finished a proposed series, I'm not sure. I've toyed with the idea of historical crime but plenty of people write that so I'd have to come up with something slightly different.

I've got a few years work before I'll need to worry about that, though ;)

I read a wide range of adult and children's literature, that is written by award-winning authors

But I have read, and will continue to read many more books about the genre I am writing about.

I have a strong interest in Greek Mythology, Norse Mythology, Roman History, and Arthurian Legend.

My main influences are, Tennyson, Chaucer, Homer, Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Geraldine McCaughrean, Michael Morpurgo and Rosemary Sutcliffe.

I strongly believe that want-to-be authors should read as much about their genre as possible.

The joke in publishing is,

'To lift ideas from one author is plagiarism. But to lift ideas from many authors is research.'