Hello there. Call me Richard of Clayton, for there are quite a few people who have the name Richard Blake.

I love science fiction and fantasy stories. My favorite authors growing up were Isaac Asimov and J.R.R. Tolkien. (I know those may be cliche answers, but it's true). When I picked up my first Isaac Asimov book (Foundation's Edge) I was completely enthralled and I wanted to read more. I went out of my way to find everything I could that was written by him and read it. Every one of them had something I liked in them and I sought to emulate him as best I could. With Tolkien, sadly he did not write nearly as much, but he inspired me to create many strange worlds where anything could happen. And with these inspiring figures I have been writing ever since.

When I sit down to write my stories being able to speculate about what could happen under alternate realities keeps my mental juice flowing.