Writing and reading books, playing and listening to music.Cold Chinese takeout for breakfast.
Miles Davis and John Coltrane when I'm writing. Anything but country otherwise.
My all-time favorite movie is _The Sure Thing_, starring John Cusack.
I'm kind of partial to my own first novel, _Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie_. But my all-time favorite authors for adults are Kurt Vonnegut, Frank McCourt, and a really brutal action.mystery novelist named James Lee Burke.In the young adult world, my idols are Paul Zindel (_The Pigman_) and Judy Blume. My favorite up-and-coming young adult novelists are the members of AS IF (Authors Supporting Intellectual Freedom). You can see the list at www.asifnews.blogspot.com.
My Grampa Sol; my dad; Frank McCourt; my wife!