I love (1) historic non-fiction that reads like fiction; (2) legal suspense with realistic courtroom scenes and legal ethics crises; (3) classic French and Russian lit; (4) thrillers; and (5) old-school sci-fi.
A couple of decades of handling high-conflict divorces can yield some pretty nifty story ideas. I've spent the past few years unlearning how to write like a lawyer, because good legal writing is a solid one-eighty away from good fiction writing: It's telling, as persuasively and cogently as possible. No showing allowed!
My short story, Somerset, appears in the Monadnock Writers Group's latest journal, Shadow and Light: A Literary Anthology on Memory. Another of my short stories, By Order Of The Synod, won third place in the 2012 Pike's Peak Writers Fiction Contest.
My primary project is "Client Relations", a legal suspense/upmarket women's fiction story about a young attorney who becomes entangled with her client during his custody case.