What is some of your writing experiences before now? Or is this just something your first time?

Well, I have written some poetry, and it's been published in local newspapers.

And I've also written a couple of anthologies, which have been included in the anthologies.

And I also won a writing contest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Oh.

How did you get connected to that in Winston-Salem? Well, my classmate, I saw online that he was having a contest.

He owned a bookstore in Winston-Salem, and so I just entered the contest.

So in reference to that, then, what books and writers have meant a lot to you as you were developing as a writer and thinking about your book?