Bookwyrm

• Issac Asimov, Master of the Old SF
• Douglas Adams, a man who told me not to Panic...
• Dave Barry, who always swears he's not making anything up
• Judy Blume, who filled my teenage bookshelf
• Ray Bradbury, classic SF and Mystery writer
• Bulwer-Lytton, and the Terrible Writers that Followed...
• Lewis Carroll, part of my walrus phase in my life...
• Cousteau, a man who opened up the sea for me...
• Roald Dahl, who once said "kids love to see nasty things happen to nasty people...."
• Alan Dean Foster, a sci-fi factory
• Tove Jansson, my original introduction to anthropomorphic literature
• Steven King, the master of psychological horror since H.P. Lovecraft
• Carl Larsson, a distant relative of mine known more for his artwork than writing.
• Timothy Leary... R.I.P.
• Astrid Lindgren, who brought me Pippi, Emil, Ronia, and others
• H.P. Lovecraft, a man who really knew his horror audience.
• Dan Millman, who taught me there are no ordinary moments
• Penn and Teller, a twisted pair of magic practitioners
• Terry Pratchett, like Douglas Adams on Fantasy
• The Amazing Randi does for the mystic skeptic what Carl Sagan did for pseudo-science
• Dr. Carl Sagan, a Candle in the Darkness with scientific theory
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.... and so it goes...
• Robert Asprin since my first Myth book
• Hal Clement
• Daniel Pinkwater, particularily "Lizard Music"
• Tintin, Herge's boy wonder

I also like Peter Benchley, Scott Cunningham, Punkie, Shel Silversteen, George Selden, D. Allen Murphy, and a myriad of other authors I have read over the many years but either have no pages yet, or I have forgotten their name...

Online Essays in Their Own Right

• "So what did you do during the War, Grandma?"
• Religious Reich
• A Place Called Kaktovik
  
• Paul's Adventures - A motivational speaker with a life to tell

There are also various literary oganizations on the web, like E-Text, an organization dedicated to getting books in print on the web, and some science fiction organzations like WFSA and BSFS, both local to me.