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My piece for the @bkdksecretsanta

This was a fun challenge. Lucario was originally part of the picture but I just couldn't get him to fit in a way I liked...

Hi Anon!

I think, like any writer, I carry a lot of inspirations. Because my work tends to be dialogue heavy, I tend to be heavily inspired by movies whose dialogue grips me deeply.

But in terms of books and authors, I have LONG been a collector of poetry. I'm eternally fascinated by narrative flow, and how a poet can impress a deeply powerful emotion or moment or unearth a memory with one or two very short, specific lines. I have a A LOT of poetry books, and I like to buy quarterly poetry magazines, if I happen to come across them at B&N.

I am inspired Richard Siken both Crush & War of the Foxes, Ocean Vuong (again, both of his publications), Anne Sexton, Warsan Shire, Leonard Cohen's books of poetry (he wrote a lot more poetry than he did even write songs), Johnny Cash has a poetry book called Forever Words. Smear: Poetry For Girls, Satan Says, . .

Okay, I decided instead of listing, I'd show you some of my favs! That way if you're curious, you can zoom in and check them out.

Books & authors that inspire me: Anne Rice, since I was twelve. She made me think I had something worth writing about. Jonathan Safran Foer, specifically Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jack Kerouac, the White Trash Warlock trilogy by David R Slayton, Matt Haig's Reasons To Stay Alive (non-fiction), the entire writings of Erich Maria Remarque but especially All Quiet on the Western Front and Heaven Has No Favorites, Abarat by Clive Barker, Good Omens (read it when I was 17 and it changed me lol) . . .