While writing mainly in the Fantasy genre, his reading habits are very open to multiple genres. He has gone through the hard and soft Science Fiction phase, Epic Fantasies and of course the Sword and Sorcery phases. Also, as a devoted reader of Detectiv and Spy novels, Thrillers and Horror novels as well as Mysteries and lets not forget the Classics, he is a somewhat well rounded as a reader.
There really are too many authors and books to name as favorites, so those listed are really the authors and books that influenced his reading and writing habits.
As to his own writing, he is currently working on a fantasy that is not the typical sword and sorcery story, yet has all the familiar feel of well loved classics. HeI hesistates to call it Epic, though he feels it has all the elements to be considered epic.