Kimberly asked Christopher Rice:

Who are some of your favourite authors?

Christopher Rice I'm terrible at answering this question. Most writers are. We can rarely narrow it down to a list of two or three authors, which is what most people seem to want, so I try to divide the list into two groups, Writers I'm Loving Right Now and Writers Who Have Influenced Me. The "Influenced Me" group is made up of writers I read at a young age, whose work impacted not just how I write today but how I view the world in general. My mother, being the most obvious one, for a variety of reasons, but also Stephen King, John Irving, and my good friend, Eric Shaw Quinn, who authored one of the first novels about a gay character I ever read, SAY UNCLE, that wasn't about hunting for sex dying of AIDS. During my mystery/thriller days I discovered a lot of authors in those genres I felling love with. James Lee Burke, Blake Crouch, Gregg Hurwitz, and the classic dead white guys of detective fiction, Ross MacDonald and Raymond Chandler. I realize I'm about to create three categories to this list when I promised two, but in the third category, the Writers I'm Loving Right Now group, I'd place a lot of really great authors of gay romance I've discovered over the past few years. Tere Michaels, Amy Lane, Damon Suede, Heidi Culinan, Anne Tenino. There are almost too many to include on any list. But Tere Michaels is a particular favorite of mine.

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