I do. I was blessed to grow up being encouraged to read. I read a lot, too. I remember a lot of the books that I read along the way, but the book that hooked me and made me a fiction reading adult was The Maestro by Davis Bunn (he was T. Davis Bunn at the time).

I was 13 or 14, and The Maestro connected with a lot of the angst I felt, it connected with my love of music, and it just worked for me. The reading experience was engrossing. I loved it. I loved the cheesy parts (and there were some), I loved the serious parts. I loved that it talked about real characters living their faith in sometimes trying times. It made me want to write.

I could seriously wax poetic about what that book did for me. But enough about me… was there a book that cemented your status as an aspiring writer?