I would love to have written Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast.' Peake's immersive descriptions of an ancient castle the size of a city are only bettered by the strange characters who live there. I could live in Gormenghast!
I have been writing seriously since 2015, but have always written as a hobby. I grew up in an actively haunted house, which gave me an abiding fascination with the occult and supernatural. Bearing that in mind, it is perhaps no great surprise that I write dark paranormal urban fantasy.