What you like to read and how that influences what you write…

I read a lot of different things.  Mostly I read romance, but I also love adventure stories as well as mysteries.  I really love a good adventure story because it carries me away on the action and the intrigue.  Those are things I find a lot of fun.  And sometimes elements of those kind of stories make their way into my own writing.  I think because I love those stories so much that I can’t help putting in some elements of them into my own writing.

I also love a good mystery and I truly believe that mystery of some sort is required in almost every story.  As a reader or a writer, we can’t know everything all up front.  We need to figure things out as we go along.  So a bit of mystery or things we need to figure out and solve are key to any really good story.  Personally I read a lot of murder mysteries, but I don’t usually have murder in my own work, but more than once I’ve used a number of the elements of a good mystery in my stories.

As an author I think that including things we love in our stories helps make the work better and the love, both between the characters and of the story, comes through.

Andrew grew up in western Michigan with a father who loved to tell stories and a mother who loved to read them. Since then, he has lived throughout the country and traveled throughout the world. He has a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and works in information systems for a large corporation.