From Jasper Fforde to David Eddings: the top 9 authors who've inspired me the most

This is a re-post of a guest post I wrote a while back, which first appeared here. It's so personal to me as a writer that I thought it worth sharing with you all as well.

I never received high praise from my high school English teachers for my attempts at using figurative or descriptive language, nor did I take creative writing classes in college. Instead, I’ve always been a voracious reader,