• Sea Change - SM Wheeler
• Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia C. Wrede
• Abarat - Clive Barker
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman
• Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
• His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
• Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• This Is Gonna Hurt - Nikki Sixx
• Island Of The Aunts - Eva Ibbotson
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

I feel like the influences from all of these are pretty evident in my writing and the stories I try to tell.