The first book i ever read outside of the "Mainstream" was Mel Odom's Sooner Dead. I was on a road trip with my dad and we grabbed it off of a rack at a gas station. we read most of it on the drive and i absolutely loved it. That was the one that really opened me up to all of the other books out...
I've been coming to this site for a while and love all the articles. I've always loved writing, but it has hitherto been a casual thing. Recently I have discovered a lot of non-mainstream works which inspired me to finally sit down and finish something. I'm still only 3,000 words in, but at...