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1. Why do you blog?
Self-promotion. I want people to find out about my books and read them. The blog is kind of like a combination advert/rough draft.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
I have shifting influences, but the big three are Henry Miller, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Vladimir Nabokov.
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About Writing:

We all have something to say, and we all use language, so people think that they themselves could do this. It's like the mother who says, looking at Picasso's paintings, "My child draws better than that.' People don't know how hard it is to write, what a struggle it is to know what you want to say and then to say what you mean. Jane Kenyon

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