Noticing Newbies

Hi! I'm Steve and I have been reading for fifty-four years. My influences are all over the map, but mostly spring from genre works.

I'm a big fan of Robert B. Parker and Michael Connelly among detective writers.

Chalk me up in the columns under Robert Heinlein and Larry Niven on the science fiction toteboard.

Canonically, I draw on Clemens, Kipling and C.S. Forester.

And I love to play with words. I've sounded a few clinkers -- better that I sometimes cringe when proofreading than that I fall asleep.

The first item of my "faith" in the ink trade is that each piece finds its own audience --- if you are good enough to seize on your luck when it drifts past your fingertips.