Writing - My novels are influenced by the research and travel I have done in places like India, Turkey, and Spain, so I write historical fantasy, set in lands resembling Ottoman Turkey, medieval Persia, and Mughal India. I have also started writing YA fantasy.
Reading - I am all over the map here -- memoir, personal essays, historical romance, YA fantasy (especially steampunk and dystopian), historical and epic fantasy, and literary fiction. I also love reading re-imagined fairy tales, either in adult or YA fiction. I tend to overload my bookshelf and read 2 or 3 books at a time!