Reading is one of my interests. Well, before I starting working on a night shift because you can't just have enough time for yourself if your wide awake at night (except for those times I am caught sleeping during office hours LOL) and sleeping through the day. Though occasionally, I still find time to read good books. I basically read anything and everything with the exception of romance novels and medical related books or articles because I just can't relate to them but my favorite is horror books.
When reading novels, I'm not really particular with the authors, as long as I enjoy the story but you really can't avoid having favorites.
I actually have four favorite authors with with respective genre of writing.
Christopher Pike, a pseudonym for Kevin McFadded is my very first favorite author. An American writer born on November 1954 in New York but grew up in California. McFadden is a highly private person and the only known information about him is only gathered from his books and a very few interviews. He writes about young-adult science fiction, horror and thriller “not so long stories” which is at that time good for those who just started to get interested in reading pocket books like me. I just love the stories he is writing in his book and I just wish to be able to read all his books but It's hard to find it in book rental shops and “second hand” book shops (since buying brand new books is a little expensive).
Being a college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programmed computers before becoming a recognized author. Initially unsuccessful when he set out to write science fiction and adult mystery, it was not until his work caught the attention of an editor who suggested he write a teen thriller that he became a hit. The result was his first book the Slumber Party (1985), a book about a group of teenagers who run into bizarre and violent events during a ski weekend. Although his books are best known for being thrillers, they are often more focused on aspects of science fiction, spirituality, and whodunit. References to Egyptian, Greek and Hindu mythology are also common in his stories. He is also the author of of the popular children's series Spooksville.
Sidney Sheldon or Sidney Schechtel, born on February 11, 1917 and died at the age of 89 on January 30, 2007. He was born in Chicago, Illinois,a famous and Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers: a Broadway playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist.
In 1969, Sheldon wrote his first novel, The Naked Face, which earned him a nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best First Novel.
Sidney Sheldon's writing genre are Crime-fiction and Thriller. His stories often features strong and determined women who persevere and succeeds in a tough world run by hostile men. When asked why, he said that he liked to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. He also said that omen have tremendous power which is their femininity which men can't do without it.
V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, is a known name for Cleo Virginia Andrews. An American Novelist born June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia and died at the age of 63 on December 19, 1986 of breast cancer. Her stories involves very strong emotions and I can sometimes find myself crying while reading her novels.
Her first novel, titled Gods of Green Mountain, was a science fiction effort that remained unpublished during her lifetime but was released as an e-book in 2004.A writer of Gothic Horror and Family saga, her novels often revolves around family secrets and forbidden love involving themes of consensual incest and often which led to many critics claiming that her writing style was eccentric and immoral. She earned many awards and one of which is The Number One Best selling Author of Popular Horror and Occult Paperbacks" by the American Booksellers Association in 1986, beating out Stephen King.
Clive Cussler is a writer of adventure novels which features the adventures of Dirk Pitt. Born in Aurora, Illinois and grew up in Alhambra, California. He attended Pasadena City College for two years and then enlisted in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. During his service in the Air Force he was promoted to Sergeant and worked as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer for the Military Air Transport Service.
Clive Cussler's life nearly parallels that of his hero in his books Dirk Pitt. He divides his time between the desserts of Arizona and the mountains of Colorado searching for lost aircraft or leads expeditions to find famous shipwrecks.
Cussler is a fellow of the Explorers Club of New York, the Royal Geographic Society in London, and the American Society of Oceanographers.
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