The Madness of a Writer's Mind

"The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them."
-  The Contemporary Review on J.M. Barrie, 1891

The list of those authors that influence my writing is long and filled with authors of old:

Henry James, Turn of the Screw
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
The Bronte Sisters- Charlotte, Emily and Anne, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, respectfully
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Frances Hogdson Burnett, The Secret Garden
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paraside
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

I was raised on classics, and therefore unknowingly placee classical elements into my novels- from the worn pages of a Civil War diary, to the intricate otherworld of post-apocalyptic America. I draw on strangeness and beauty and mix them together. I mix together as many elements as I possibly can to come up with something truly unique.

All authors think outside the box- and those that truly move outside are remembered. I hope to be one of them. I don't mind thinking outside the box, and if that includes going mad in the process, so be it.

"After all, we're all mad here."
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll