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ELVES, MERMAIDS, ANGELS, DEMONS, VAMPIRES, ZOMBIEs, SHIFTERS and more.
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Subject: AUTOGRAPH MY BOOK Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.comBlogger433125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-83674043671505769842017-04-20T07:01:00.002-07:002017-04-20T07:01:31.554-07:0013 Top #100 YA Dystopian author paperback giveaway!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The second YA SyFy dystopian Thriller released by the debut author M. Black, dubbed Divergent meets iRobot. This novel will appeal to a vast array of audiences. Filled with haunting questions of consciousness and artificial intelligence, identity and self-awareness, politics and love, life and death, the reader will be engaged in an entertaining story filled with futuristic technology. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Set in the year 2055 in British Columbia, Canada, where humans are part robotic and robots are becoming more humanlike, the line dividing the two is becoming less clear. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When sixteen-year-old Fione meets Maci, a twenty-one-year-old Flexbot who escapes from ImaTech located along the crust of the Coast Mountains, Fione’s life is taken on a roller-coaster ride of events that begins with trying to save Maci from ImaTech Corporation and ends with trying to save the country.</span><br />
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Filled with haunting questions of consciousness and artificial intelligence, identity and self-awareness, politics and love, life and death, the reader will be engaged in an entertaining story filled with futuristic technology. </span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Set in the year 2055 in British Columbia, Canada, where humans are part robotic and robots are becoming more humanlike, the line dividing the two is becoming less clear. </span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">When sixteen-year-old Fione meets Maci, a twenty-one-year-old Flexbot who escapes from ImaTech located along the crust of the Coast Mountains, Fione’s life is taken on a roller-coaster ride of events that begins with trying to save Maci from ImaTech Corporation and ends with trying to save the country.</span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">With Fione's best friend and love interest, a Flexbot named Pix, Fione and Maci must come face-to-face with the greatest dangers their country has ever seen and learn the disturbing secrets of the popular online program Exotiqa—which her friends, family, and most of the country has downloaded onto their Cerebral Slabs. This won’t be easy, since Maci’s only love and greatest enemy, nicknamed Thirty, is tracking her every move. </span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Told from two points of view: Maci’s and Fione's, this dystopia is filled with plenty of futuristic technology, and tells a story of a world that could eerily mirror our own one day. </span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games will love this dystopian world with two young but strong female heroines who must save the fragile system crumbling around them. This story will even satisfy those looking for something with more philosophical themes and it is a perfect fit for readers interested in sci-fi, artificial intelligence, and robotics. </span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Flexbot dialogue is told in Synchro Let text in print (10 font size in ebook), and human dialogue is told in Baskerville text (12 font size). </span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“Sunday passes too quickly. Approaching the mall in Mom’s jeep I almost forget I have a bot fugitive hidden away at my best friend’s house until we park and walk up to the glass front doors.”</span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">REVIEWS:</span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"Wow, wow, wow! It is nothing short of great! I love all dystopia. But you have a unique twist." -Aisha</span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"The difference of narration between the eyes of a human and that of a robot is really fun. It is distinct and well thought out, of how each being would feel and see things." -Francine</span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"Certainly as good as anything Jane Lindskold writes! The story flowed, it was easy to sympathize with the main characters, and it was an entertaining read." -John </span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">"The book explores a new avenue in robotics with emotional attachments starting to develop between robots and even between humans and bots. Realistically and sensitively dealt with, this adds an intriguing and appealing aspect to the plot. Each chapter is written through the eyes of the various characters in turn, which further adds to the suspense and intrigue as well as elaborating on the nuances of human/bot relationships.</span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">On their quest to prevent the destruction of the world as we know it, our heros set off on a journey to ImaTech to destroy Exotiqa, meeting up with some interesting characters and becoming involved in a lot of action including an exciting car chase worthy of any Speilberg movie. In fact, the story would make a great film or perhaps a TV series. There are twists and turns in the plot and we are kept guessing as to who the culprits are until near the end.</span></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I thoroughly enjoyed the book despite it being designed to appeal to a young adult audience, but then I am big kid at heart. In my opinion this is a great read for anyone of any age. A warining shot across the bows of AI advocates. Marvelous!" -Ken</span></span></div>
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Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-34460130948881741262017-01-03T16:30:00.000-08:002017-01-03T16:30:00.692-08:00Author a Day, part 13<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">L. VIRELLI</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Just an ordinary woman finding every day life extraordinary with all the many human facets. I write about the dramas of our lives in fiction and nonfiction with depth and a touch of humor. I’ve had inspirational short stories published in 3 magazines, published a short story memoir anthology titled, Home Avenue and recently released my debut contemporary women’s fiction novel, Whit’s End.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Novel Link: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N77QY32"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N77QY32</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre you write: Memoir and Women’s Fiction</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? (Jenny) Join a writer’s critique group that has guidelines for authors to follow. It helped me immensely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve) In normal everyday life, I’m an all-my-ducks-in-a-row kind of person. In writing, however, I’m completely the opposite. So, the answer is, I fly by the seat of my pants when it comes to writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? (Luke) </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy) It took me several years, and I don’t even know the exact count. I had to stop and start many times due to some difficult life events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? (Ami)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. (Kay)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? (Ruth)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? (Bill) I write character driven stories about the drama in every day relationships with people. Since I’ve experienced lots of drama …. Well, there’s your answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? (Marissa)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? (i.e. first draft, editing, etc...) (Greg) I actually enjoy editing more than the writing, because once I’ve got it all out of my head, then I can get to the heart of things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were stranded on a deserted island with only one book, what would it be? (Ominbuses, complete works, and how to books are forbidden!) (Laura)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">RUTH WHITE</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: I was a coal miner's daughter in the Appalachian mountains. We lived up in a holler, which was so deep the sun didn't hit the bottom 'til eleven a.m. Don't know what a holler is? Same thing as a canyon. Anyway, most of my books for middle grades and young adults were set in that time and place, and were published by big name publishers. Though the pay was good, I began to feel that I was writing the same book over and over again, so I started branching out, so to speak, and experimented with writing about different times and places with an older reading audience in mind. And here I am self-publishing and loving the control I have over everything. By the way I live in Hershey, PA now, but I still can't seem to get up before eleven.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Lily of the Valley: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MS9W1DU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MS9W1DU</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Serendipity: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MDKSIHK"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MDKSIHK</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Diary of a Wildflower: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Diary-of-a-Wildflower-ebook/dp/B00E491Y8A"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">http://www.amazon.com/Diary-of-a-Wildflower-ebook/dp/B00E491Y8A</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">The Blues of Lotus Hall: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S0C4N5S"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S0C4N5S</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Hanging With Ecila: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U84TX4C"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U84TX4C</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre: The genre in which I write is unknown. One is soft sci-fi, one is historical fiction, one is visionary, two are young adult</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? (Jenny) Get started. Now you are over the most difficult hurdle. Unfortunately, you have to get started every day. Force yourself to write one sentence, no matter how sloppy. Then you will find yourself editing that sentence, and adding something to it, and you're on your way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve) I have most of the story line in my head before I begin to write. I don't use an outline, but I write myself notes as new ideas pop into my head. Sometimes my characters take on a life of their own and turn the story in another direction. That's when writing is the most fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? (Luke) I do have a favorite. Tiny Lambert in Weeping Willow. She ran away with the story and with my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy) The time actually spent writing was about six months. Planning it in my head and researching took a few years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? (Ami) I have always loved to write. My motivation to start each new book is a competition with myself. I can do better. This next one will be better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. (Kay) Harper Lee, because she wrote exactly the right book at the right time, and helped to change the world. Lee Smith, because she writes as I wish to write. She is my role model. James Baldacci, because he is versatile. He is successful in more than one genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? (Ruth) I am more comfortable setting my story in a time and place I am familiar with, but I am experimenting with other settings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz) A little wine doesn't hurt. It takes away my writing inhibitions. Stephen King tells the story that he got plastered one night and blacked out. The next morning he found he had written an entire novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? (Bill) My books are filled with my own experiences in disguise. It is strangely cathartic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.) I would throw a person we all know into Mount Doom to save the world, but I won't say here who he/she is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? (Marissa) I follow the advice of Anne Lamott, who urges writers not to be afraid to write a sh--ty first draft. With that in mind I force myself to write one sentence, no matter how sh--ty it is. Then I edit the sentence. That usually leads to writing another sentence, and another, until I am back in my groove. If not, I quit for the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; line-height: normal;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? (i.e. first d</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">raft, editing, etc...) (Greg) It is a very satisfying feeling to finish up a story. That last page is special.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">If you were stranded on a deserted island with only one book, what would it be? (Ominbuses, complete works, and how to books are forbidden!) (Laura) A book with all blank pages - that is assuming I have something to write with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: No matter where her life has taken her–and it’s taken her to some very weird places–having access to books, a notebook and a pen has kept Patricia Thomson sane. From her beginnings in the same part of New Jersey that gave the world Bruce Springsteen and Kevin Smith to her current life living in Richmond, Virginia with her beloved and Poe the Wonder Cat, words have always been her friends, and now she lives the dream of sharing her words with the world. Please visit her at www.patriciathomson.com, friend her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter<br />
@AuthorPThomson!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">STEVE VERNON</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: “If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon.” - Bookgasm</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">KELPIE DREAMS <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CYNM152"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CYNM152</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">KELPIE CHRISTMAS (free on December 26) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M7NHRRV"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193); color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M7NHRRV</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">KELPIE SNOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kelpie-Snow-Paranormal-Romantic-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01N9EZSJ1"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/Kelpie-Snow-Paranormal-Romantic-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01N9EZSJ1</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genres you write: Paranormal Fantasy and Horror</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Read, read, read and write, write, write. Write every day. Doesn’t matter if you write a thousand words or ten – but tack something onto that manuscript that is going to bump it a little bit further down the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I try to plan everything out and the next thing I know I am boarding the latest flight of fancy, courtesy of the kind folks fly-by-your-seat-United by way of good intentions and bad habits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I really do enjoy writing Lady Macbeth, however Rhonda (a professional assassin and foil for Lady Macbeth) is a lot more fun to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Too long. Way too freaking long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Financial necessity. I need me a brand new book to sell. You might as well tattoo that onto my stomach, the single-most prominent feature of my dubious physique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Joe Lansdale, because nobody can make carnage, crime and corruption so danged funny. The late Robert Parker is a favorite of mine as well – mostly for his gift of dialogue. Lastly, I’d have to say Stephen Hunter – although his most recent books left me scratching my head and wondering just where along the way the man forgot how to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I prefer to set my story somewhere local, somewhere in a place and a time that I am familiar with – like the North Pole, or a Martian spaceship, or a field full of evil-possessed scarecrows. You know, common day settings that make you feel right at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ve got a hand-carved obeche wood mountain man leaning on his long rifle and looking down at me while I write. I get the feeling that he has been thinking about shooting me with that long rifle of his if I don’t figure out how to write faster. I guess that it is a good thing that I did not carve a barrel or ammo in that long rifle of his.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do your own experiences influence what you write? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That’s a little like asking how can you make soup without onions. Your own experiences are the grist for any story or novel that you write – even if it is set somewhere wild and crazy such as the North Pole, or a Martian spaceship, or a field full of evil-possessed scarecrows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I could not be a ninja. I’m not saying that I am uncoordinated, but I make a frozen moose look positively graceful. I suppose I might be one of those ninja vacuum cleaners that I have heard about – mostly on account of every time that I try to perform a backwards-triple-somersault I mostly suck out loud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If I had to throw somebody into Mount Doom it would most likely turn out to be my own self. Why? Let me refer you back to that Ninja question, and the sad fact that walking and chewing bubble gum can be exceptionally difficult for a dude as innately clumsy as myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Lastly, if I were planning a perfect heist I’d need Bruce Lee to backwards-triple-somersault himself into the bank vault and Jackie Chan for comedy relief. I’d probably want Bruce Willis to get himself beat to a pulp and shoeless during the whole operation. I’d want George Clooney to give it that air of sophistication and Frank Sinatra just to show old George how it really is supposed to look. And lastly - if I wanted this heist to perfect I would arrange to catch my death of a head cold gone south before the heist went down – just so that I would have myself a perfect alibi and not klutz up too hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I recommend pole vaulting. If there is a block in the middle of your plot just jump over into the next chapter and keep on writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? (i.e. first draft, editing, etc...) </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Let’s go with predictable. My favorite part of writing is being done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were stranded on a deserted island with only one book, what would it be? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’d want to be stuck there with a great big book, like maybe In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust – a book that weighs in at about 3031 pages – or over 1200000 words. Why such a big book? I know that some of you readers are thinking to yourself that I picked me a big old honking doorstop of a novel just to help pass the time – but heck no. It is not time that I am thinking about passing. This is a deserted island, remember? Toilet paper is in short supply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Joynell Schultz spends her days working in a “reliable profession” as a veterinary pharmacist, which pays the bills, but isn’t nearly as exciting as creating alternative worlds writing speculative fiction. While shivering through the long northern Wisconsin winters with her husband, two children, and numerous pets, she enjoys reading, writing, and planning her next vacation.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Novel Link: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXTGIZL"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXTGIZL</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre: I love writing (and reading) speculative fiction – especially with a touch of mystery/romance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? (Jenny) I have simple advice really. Stick with it. Write and read every day and</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 37, 0); color: #ff2500;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">have thick skin when receiving feedback. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve) I draft a rough outline that hits the high points of the story (hook, backstory, trigger, crisis, struggle, epiphany, plan, climax, and ending) and maybe even flesh it out a little. Most my story happens while writing though—my characters always end up with a mind of their own and write their own story, despite what I have planned for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? (Luke) I have a mother in a short story of mine that’s my favorite. Her young child is bitten by a werewolf and she needs to make some tough decisions on what to do. I think I relate to the sacrifices a mother makes for her child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy) I wrote Love, Lies, & Clones in 8 months—but I was also working on two other novels in that time that will come out in 2017. I get tired of one project and need something else to take my mind off of it, so I can come back with a fresh eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? (Ami) The idea of Love, Lies & Clones formed and stayed in the back of my mind since 2003 when the cloned sheep, Dolly, died. I often wondered, what would happen if they cloned humans, and what ethical issues would the humans face? My argument was always that they’d be as human as you and me. That sparked this story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. (Kay) Michael Crichton. His writing inspired me since childhood. I love the mix of science, especially medicine, integrated with our normal world—the world around us. He was a physician and used his expertise throughout his stories. Another thing I really like is he wrote across multiple genres. In fact, many of his books didn’t fit into one specific category. Speculative Fiction/Science Fiction, Thriller, Action & Adventure, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Another author that inspired me as a child is Madeline L’Engle. It’s probably just because A Wrinkle in Time was the first Sci-Fi/Fantasy book I ever read, and the concept of folding space was thought provoking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Now, I find inspiration in Indie Authors. I tend to read their writing exclusively, with nobody really being my favorite. I’m impressed at writers who write solely to entertain their audience. Writers who write as a hobby because it’s fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? (Ruth) This is a hard question! “They” always say you should “write what you know.” I tend to write about settings I know and mix in some fantasy/scifi elements. I find I can describe the setting so much better when I’ve experienced it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz) My alarm is set for 3:30AM every morning so I can get in a good hour of writing before I need to go to work. Also, the rest of my house is still sleeping, so this gives me quiet time. I know many writers listen to music, but I need complete silence to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? (Bill) Family relationships are important to me, and you’ll see them in everything I write. Parent-child bonds especially (as I have two kids myself.) Also, I’m a scientist by nature (a pharmacist) and I tend to include some aspect of health care / science / etc in my writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.) If I was a ninja with a vendetta it would be towards WHOEVER decided you didn’t need two spaces after a period anymore. I mean really??? I learned to type and I can’t help pushing that spacebar twice. Now, when I’m done with a novel, I need to go back and replace all my double spaces with single ones. Geesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? (Marissa) I love brainstorming. I get out a blank piece of paper and write down any possible thing that can happen, no matter how absurd. By the end, I end up with something…or nothing at all, but at least I was still writing. When I can’t take it anymore, I do something else. Go for a run, dishes, play a game with my kids. Sometimes I bounce idea off my family and that helps too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? (i.e. first draft, editing, etc...) (Greg) Writing the first scene! When an idea strikes, I love to write the opening scene—seeing how the characters in my head come to life on the page.</span></div>
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Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-70205911458317363122017-01-01T16:26:00.000-08:002017-01-01T16:26:01.321-08:00Author a Day, part 10<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">JENNY OBRIEN</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Jenny O'Brien was born in Ireland a very long time ago. She's an avid reader and book reviewer for NetGalley in addition to being a 2016 RoNA judge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">She writes for both children and adults with a new book coming out every six months or so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">She's also an avid collector of cats, broken laptops, dust and happy endings - two of which you'll always find in her scribblings! She lives in Guernsey and, in her spare time she can be found frowning at her wonky cakes and even wonkier breads. You'll be pleased to note she won't be entering Bake-Off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englishwoman-Paris-Heartwarming-contemporary-romance-ebook/dp/B01N593Y7T/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englishwoman-Paris-Heartwarming-contemporary-romance-ebook/dp/B01N593Y7T/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Sometimes it's hard to find time to write, for me that's certainly the case. That's why I always carry a notebook and pen around to scribble in whenever I have five minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Oh I'm the latter but not out of choice. I have great plans and have even gone so far as to set up a story board with full character assessments but once my fingers touch those keys the words takes over. In Unhappy Ever After Girl I even added another wedding just because at the time it fitted perfectly with the rest of the plot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have a soft spot for Dai Monday from my children's book Boy Brainy because he was my first character when I started to write. I thought of him first and wrapped the plot around his character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Englishwoman in Paris, which was released three weeks ago took four months from the germ of the idea to publication. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Funnily enough I was writing a tragedy at the time, a book I'm still only 20% through and I was finding it emotionally draining. I looked out of my window at the builders erecting scaffolding on next door's house and thought what if...</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There are too many to pick so I'm just going to give you one. Valerie Keogh. In many ways she's very similar in that she's also Irish with many of her books set in Ireland. But where she writes thrillers I write romance. She's self published too and is starting to make a name for herself, not only that - she writes great books. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I always said I'd never write about somewhere I'd never been but I've just broken that promise as my work in progress is set in New York. I'm having a great time researching it so I'd have to say a bit of both. It's time consuming trying to authenticate information for a place you don't know but the Internet is great and my list of places I want to visit is now nearly as big as my book stack of unread books by my bed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That's a good question and easy to answer - no. I write where and when I can. Anywhere I have paper and a pen. When I'm writing I switch off to everything so, unlike many authors I don't write to music. If there's music or TV on it doesn't bother me as I just block it out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Very much so. I use a lot of things that have happened to me in the past but none in their entirety. So in Ideal Girl the first chapter is where Liddy trips up Mitch in a ball of wool that's unravelled from her bag. I once worked in a building on the top floor where the canteen was on the bottom and yes I had to retrace my tracks to wind all the wool back but thankfully there was no tripping up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That's a curve ball! Okay it would be a book store heist and I'd chose Harry Potter, Rom Weasley and Hermione Granger, or the characters that play them because I'd sure need some magic not to get caught. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I don't really suffer from it in that if I'm stuck on one section I just skip a chapter and go back at the end. First drafts get reworked so many times that it's easy to check for continuity at the end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">First draft all the way. Someone once said write the story you want to read and that's what I'm doing. It sounds strange but I want to know what happens to my characters because as the writer I have no clue what my mind will come up with until pen hits paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That's an impossible question for me to answer so I'm going to have to cheat. I choose a notebook so I could write the books myself. It would mean a pencil and rubber as well though. I read about 300 books a year so not being able to read would be torture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Blurb: A synthetic stem cell called a biomite can replace any cell in your body. They are infallible. Those with 50% biomites will no longer be considered human. </span></div>
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Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-12859152822235654572016-12-31T16:25:00.000-08:002016-12-31T16:25:00.174-08:00Author a Day, Part 9<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Marissa Marchan is a Child Support case manager by day, a creative writer by night. She is the author of two children's books and her inspiration for the story came from her then-eight-year-old grandson, Ray Angelo. He pulled her through the most difficult time in her life. He gave her the strength and courage to move on with her life after her sister’s death. Since then, she has continued to pursue her writing career and has written two books in the Spoiled Brats series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre you write - Romance, Children's Book</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">My cure for writer’s block is to step away from my computer, and I’ll start watching my favorite shows or movies in my pajamas all day: Psych, Monk, Harry Potter films, Columbo, Matlock and Murder, She Wrote. Why? Doing the things that I absolutely love to do like watching my favorite sitcoms or movies makes me feel alive and energized. That’s the way I get my inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Greg Meritt is the youngest of three children. He was born in Everett, Washington, and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He has been a restaurant manager, a landscaper, a purchasing agent, and salesman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As a young person in middle school, Greg became hooked on stories after reading Stephen King's "The Stand", and has been reading voraciously ever since.<br />
In 2012, he began writing his own stories and in early 2013, his short story "The Attic" was chosen out of 5,300 entries for inclusion in "The Writer’s Digest Short, Short Story Competition."</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Greg has written over thirty short stories and a novella. The Adoption is his debut novel. Greg lives in Kent, WA with his lovely wife, three adopted children and a crazy dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre: I tend to write in the thriller/suspense genre (with a hint of horror), but I’ve also written some short literary fiction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? Get a thick skin. (Jenny)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? Fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants. I’ve never been a plotter. (Steve)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? Yes, Sylvia Tran, from “The Adoption”. (Luke)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? About 8 months. (Joy)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? My adopted children and this thought: “What if the adoption turns out to be preplanned and not anything like we expected?” (Ami)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, Dean Koontz. The stories are always intriguing and I’m always wondering what is going to happen next. I love suspense. (Kay)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? Place and time I’m familiar with. To be honest, I don’t care for research; I’d rather write. (Ruth)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? Door closed, no internet, no phone, no people. I don’t have nor require anything else E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do your own experiences influence what you write? Quite a lot, actually. In my debut novel, The Adoption, I pull a lot from my own home life experience and then tweak it to be a little different. Logan has a lot of my own values and beliefs. (Bill)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? I would throw HATRED into mount Doom. We all just need to get along! OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? I grab a blank page and just start writing anything…even gibberish. This usually gets things flowing again. If not, I don’t force it but go on about my day, take long walks, exercise, etc. But I always try and write something daily. (Marissa)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? (i.e. first draft, editing, etc...) First draft, I do not care for the editing part! I just love when the story is unfolding in front of me for the first time and even I don’t know what’s going to happen or what the characters are going to do. (Greg)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were stranded on a deserted island with only one book, what would it be? (Ominbuses, complete works, and how to books are forbidden!) (Laura) The Stand (Uncut), by Stephen King.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Kay L. Ling began writing fiction at an early age. In grade school, her stories evidenced a sense of wonder and love of adventure. In one, mythical creatures lived and traveled inside a rainbow, and in another, a bored sixth-grader turned her teacher into a maroon sofa and then teleported herself to London. As she grew up, Kay never lost her ability to imagine strange and wondrous peoples and places, and now she would like to share her unique fantasy adventures with others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Become a more observant reader. Study your favorite authors and note the writing skills that set their books apart. See if you need improvement in those areas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When I begin a novel I know the opening, the overall plot, and the resolution. From there, each chapter builds organically upon the last. As the story progresses, plot points often fit together in surprising ways. I’m motivated to keep writing to see what happens! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Lana, the lead character in Beyond the Forest is my favorite, but I enjoy some of my non-human characters almost as much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I spent at least two years rewriting and polishing Beyond the Forest, a novel I wrote and then abandoned in the 1980s due to my time-consuming career. So, I suppose I could say it took me three decades to write it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The setting of my novel is loosely based on a local forest preserve. While hiking the trails and enjoying the solitude, I imagined strange beings hiding among the trees, watching me. Those beings became the woodland gnomes in my story, and I created a plot that involved our world and theirs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">1: J. R. R. Tolkien. He created entire races with diverse cultures, and placed them in Middle Earth--a world that felt as real as our own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">2: J. K. Rowling. While reading the Harry Potter series I asked myself countless times, where does she come up with this stuff?!! Writing courses can’t give you a great imagination. Either you have one or you don’t. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">3: Brandon Sanderson. His magic systems are always unique, and he provides enough details to make it all seem completely plausible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? (Ruth)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Neither, actually. I like to take readers on an adventure and give them experiences they’d never have in real life. Fantasy novels allow me to do that. Creating a unique world has its own challenges, but minimal research is required. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Generally, a cup of good, strong coffee is all I need, since I usually begin writing in the morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do your own experiences influence what you write? (Bill)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ve always loved to travel, so I like to invent new worlds to explore. Other interests, such as gems and their folklore, worked their way into my book as well. Writing that includes personal experiences or themes that touch the author can be very powerful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into Mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I wish an object could be thrown into Mount Doom to save the world. The ring, which was consumed by fire and destroyed, is a focal part of the story, but the ring bearer’s unwillingness to give up the ring and cast it into the fire teaches us an important lesson. It’s not easy to break evil’s hold on us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? (Marissa)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I rarely experience writer’s block. It helps to stop writing in the middle of a scene, or at a point where you know what happens next and you’re anxious to finish it. That makes it easy to pick up next time where you left off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I enjoy writing the first draft and living the adventure as I write it. If I’m totally caught up in the story myself, there’s little chance the reader will be bored. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were stranded on a deserted island with only one book, what would it be? (Ominbuses, complete works, and how to books are forbidden!) (Laura)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Bible! Not only would I need God’s help to survive, the Bible is full of fascinating stories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Carey Lewis traded a mundane job in Toronto, Canada, in favor of a backpacker life of nomadic travel. He can be spotted with his beautiful fiance somewhere in Southeast Asia, drinking coffee and scribbling furiously into a notepad while cursing his credit card debt and writing about bad guys that are cooler than he'll ever be.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Warriors: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Carey-Lewis-ebook/dp/B01N3QVFZO/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Carey-Lewis-ebook/dp/B01N3QVFZO/</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Generation Z: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Z-Books-One-Two-ebook/dp/B01M05QIKR"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Z-Books-One-Two-ebook/dp/B01M05QIKR</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">The Split: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Split-Gutter-Dogs-Book-ebook/dp/B01M0HFWR7"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/Split-Gutter-Dogs-Book-ebook/dp/B01M0HFWR7</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre you write: Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller as well as dystopian/ apocalyptic</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? (Jenny) This is probably going to go contrary to most advice a writer will get, but my advice to anyone just starting out is to find an author you dig, and copy their style. Now hear me out…</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Listen to the other advice which will be read everything you can and write always. That should be a given. What you don’t hear is that one of the most important aspects of writing is the author’s voice, and in most advice or how-to’s about writing, this is ignored. They’ll tell you about grammar, formatting, story structure and blah blah blah. It can be useful I suppose but I don’t think it’s as important as it’s led you to believe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Neil Gaiman, Elmore Leonard, Agatha Christie, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Ed McBain, Dennis Lehane, Harlan Coben. They all have their own voice, their own sound that you recognize right away. That’s why you love those authors. You love the way they tell you a story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Copy the style of those you love to start with. Of course, to find out what you love, you have to read a lot. Through osmosis, those voices will go through you and because it’s you, you’ll put your own voice in there. From that point, you have started to develop your own sound and style and you’ll start telling stories in your own voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Also, try not to write the parts readers tend to skip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve) I’m a ‘pantser,’ so I make it up as I go along. I have ideas before I start, some characters, a little of what they’re doing, and then I let them do their thing. I had one character that wasn’t talking, so they got killed. There was another character I didn’t think would do anything, but I couldn’t shut him up! He ended up being one of my favorite characters in Warriors. To me, writing this way, it comes as much a surprise to me as it does the reader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? (Luke)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy) It takes me about a month, and that includes research and two rounds of edits on the manuscript. Then I’ll put it away for a couple of weeks and give it another couple of edits with fresh eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I tend to research while I go. I don’t know how writers wrote anything before Google! Even though I’m of the age where I used to have to go to the library and thumb through pages myself, I can’t imagine doing that now whenever I needed to know what a street looked like or what the laws are regarding a thing in a certain country or state. Can you imagine? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The last book I outlined was Generation Z, which deals with the current race relation problems we’re facing using Zombies as the metaphor. That took a little more research as I had to look up science stuff to make my diseases believable (because Science!). I ended up using the Ebola outbreak for the catalyst of my plague.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I researched the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luthor King, Malcolm X, Jim Crow Laws, the Black Panthers etc. I also researched the other side of those things, such as the perception to them, the cause and effect and such. I enjoy that kind of research, but it took awhile as I wanted it to be right. It was worth it because it became the plot of the entire book. The fact that Generation Z is a modern story that’s very relevant today but taken from events that happened 50+ years ago is something to think about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That was a lot more research and it took a week or two, so that book, which turned into two, took about a month and a half to two months to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? (Ami) Got to do something with your day right? hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’m always asking myself a question that will drive you insane in real life but seems to serve writing well. That question is ‘what if?’ You’ll go insane asking yourself that question about your life – what if I paid more attention to the girl that left, what if I waited five minutes, what if I said or did this… it goes on and on and there aren’t any answers. But in writing it’s an incredibly useful tool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’m currently writing a story about a couple that host a reality TV show about haunted houses. It started with, ‘what if they staged the houses to be haunted?’ then went to ‘what if they staged the houses so they could buy them cheap and flip them?’ then it went to, ‘what if they were divorced and still had to host the show and got caught up in the world of marijuana trafficking?’ you know, because that’s a natural progression ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Your experiences make you who you are and shape how you see the world. From my experiences, I tend to find the humor in most situations. Laughter is amazing. I’ve developed a sharp tongue and sarcastic wit, so those things tend to find its way into the work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In the mystery/suspense/thriller genres, everyone is so damn serious all the time. They’re some of the most focused people you’ll ever come across. Those aren’t people want to hang out with! I don’t think that’s reflective of life, so my characters tend to have a sense of humor and sarcastic wit to them. That’s not to say what I write is light hearted, but there are moments of humor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The idea of writer’s block has taken on its own mythos, hasn’t it? It’s at the point where it means something different to everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I write. It’s normally a case of just getting that ball rolling from a standstill. Once that first line is down, that ball is rolling, and once there’s momentum it moves on its own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Oftentimes, it’s not writer’s block, it’s just a matter of figuring out what the characters are going to do, and what they’re going to do NEXT. That’s the part that trips people up I think. It’s going from A to C and figuring out what B is all about. While I’m figuring that out, I’ll read, or watch a movie. Sometimes you got to take a step back to see the forest for the trees or however that saying goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">A new practice I’ve recently adopted is to reread the chapter I wrote previously before I start my writing session. It helps get the ball rolling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? (i.e. first draft, editing, etc...) (Greg) My favorite part of writing would be the first draft stage. I’m a ‘pantser’ which means I make up most of it as I go along. This way I get to feel how the reader does while they’re reading, because we’re both discovering the book for the first time. There’s been more than a few times when I swore at my laptop because I couldn’t believe what just happened. There’s no better feeling in the world when something is being created, and you’re in that zone, and everything is just clicking. Then you look back at the scene you wrote and everything just works. It’s a high.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were stranded on a deserted island with only one book, what would it be? (Ominbuses, complete works, and how to books are forbidden!) (Laura)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’m going to steal Dwight Shrute’s answer from The Office – “Physician's Desk Reference... hollowed out, inside-waterproof matches, iodine tablets, beet seeds, protein bars, NASA blanket and, in case I get bored, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. No, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Question, did my shoes come off in the plane crash? </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: As far back as he can remember, Bill Hiatt had a love for reading so intense that he eventually ended up owning over eight thousand books--not counting e-books! He has also loved to write for almost that long. As an English teacher, he had little time to write, though he always felt there were stories within him that longed to get out, and he did manage to publish a few books near the end of his teaching career. Now that he is retired from teaching, the stories are even more anxious to get out into the world, and they will not be denied!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Novel Links: (I hope these are the same three I filled in on Laura's form; if I've made a mistake, please let me know. Also, I've used Booklinker links because I know some of us are in the US and some in the UK. If that's a problem, I'll send the Amazon links.) Living with Your Past Selves: <a href="http://viewbook.at/B00987M4CI"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">http://viewbook.at/B00987M4CI</span></a> Different Lee: <a href="http://viewbook.at/differentlee"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">http://viewbook.at/differentlee</span></a> I think the third was either The Devil Hath the Power: <a href="http://viewbook.at/devilhathpower"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">http://viewbook.at/devilhathpower</span></a> or We Walk in Darkness: <a href="http://viewbook.at/wewalk"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">http://viewbook.at/wewalk</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre: The genres on all are urban fantasy/paranormal. If it matters, all titles are young adult, with the exception of Different Lee, which is new adult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? (Jenny)<br />
Be persistent. Getting the recognition you deserve will be difficult at best. Success comes to those who are willing to “hang in” no matter what. Occasionally someone’s first novel will take the world by storm, but most of the time success in this field, as in most creative fields, comes from painstaking ongoing content creation, accompanied by brand-building efforts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve)<br />
I’m both. I have a general idea of where I want to go and how I want to get there, but nothing is set in stone. I try to let the nature of the characters and the situations drive the plot. Sometimes I’ll be in the middle of something and say, “No, it wouldn’t happen this way.” I’d like to think my novels look meticulously planned, but in fact what readers see is a combination of planning and spontaneity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? (Luke)<br />
I feel an attachment to all of them, but I suppose my favorite is Taliesin Weaver, my first main character. In some ways, he’s the one who got me started. I had him in mind initially for a completely different project, which I scrapped. However, I became so interested in him that I ended up building my first novel around his problems. If not for him, I might never have ended up being a writer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy)<br />
Full-length novels typically take three to six months, depending on their length and complexity, as well as upon how many other demands on my time there are while I’m writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? (Ami)<br />
As long as I can remember, I’ve had an interest in writing, but for most of my career as an English teacher, I couldn’t find the time. The breakthrough occurred when I was trying to write a grammar test, which I normally hated doing. On a whim, I decided to take a more narrative approach and asked students if I could use them as characters. I sat down to write a grammar test in the form of a mild horror story (it was Halloween week) with the students as characters. I ended up staying up almost all night writing it, at which point I realized I had not really given up on writing. After that I tried to make a little time for writing, and when I retired, I devoted much more time to it. (The students in that class not only loved the narrative grammar test but demanded more. They scored better on the grammar final exam than any class I’ve ever had.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. (Kay)<br />
That’s a hard question, considering how many authors I love. I’d say Italo Calvino, Tim Powers, and John M. Ford, all three for the compelling richness of their imaginations. Calvino, if not for his untimely death, might have won a Nobel Prize. The other two are less well-known, and Ford is out of print, but they are all well worth reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? (Ruth)<br />
I’m somewhere in the middle. As a fantasy writer, my works are often a combination of the familiar with the imaginary. For instance, my first was set partly in Santa Barbara and partly in Annwn, the Welsh Otherworld. I have also researched real-world settings with which I was not familiar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz)<br />
I don’t really have a particular writing ritual, but I do have a ritual for when I’m too tired but must go on. I play seventies music and keep telling myself I’m sixteen. Amazingly, that boosts my energy—for awhile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? (Bill)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be?<br />
What would I not throw into Mount Doom to save the world? After all, it’s the world, and therefore less replaceable than anything I might throw in. That said, I couldn’t bring myself to throw another person in. Aside from that, anything would be fair game. OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? (Marissa)<br />
I find that doing something less and letting my subconscious roll the problem around usually does the trick. I’ve never really stayed blocked for that long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? (i.e. first draft, editing, etc...) (Greg)<br />
The initial creative process, though I like polishing the material too. That said, does anyone actually like that last, tedious edit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were stranded on a deserted island with only one book, what would it be? (Ominbuses, complete works, and how to books are forbidden!) (Laura)<br />
Being a fantasy writer, I’d have to say Merlin’s grimoire r something similar, so I could learn how to open a gateway into another world and escape from the island.</span></div>
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Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-24015361986566298312016-12-27T16:19:00.000-08:002016-12-27T16:19:00.188-08:00An author a Day, part 5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Liz Hedgecock grew up in London, England, did an English degree, and then took forever to start writing. After several years working in the National Health Service, a corporate writing course rekindled the flame, and various short stories followed. Some even won prizes. Then the stories began to grow longer... Liz now lives in Cheshire with her husband and two sons, and when she’s not writing or child-wrangling you can usually find her reading, running, or sneaking into a museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Novel Links: A House of Mirrors: <a href="http://mybook.to/Mirrors"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">myBook.to/Mirrors</span></a>, The Secret Notebook of Sherlock Holmes: <a href="http://mybook.to/NotebookSH"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">myBook.to/NotebookSH</span></a>, A Jar of Thursday: <a href="http://mybook.to/Thursday"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">myBook.to/Thursday</span></a>, The Case of the Snow-White Lady: <a href="http://mybook.to/SnowWhiteLady"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">myBook.to/SnowWhiteLady</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre: mystery/crime for all. Additionally, humour for Secret Notebook: adventure, steampunk, SF for Thursday: supernatural for Snow-White Lady</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Blurb for A House Of Mirrors:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">‘What is your profession, Mr Holmes?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When Nell Villiers’ policeman husband vanishes on a routine case, her life is wrecked. Placed under protection by Inspector Lestrade, Nell is ripped from her old life and her own secret police work. Instead she must live as a widow, Mrs Hudson, in a safe house: 221B Baker Street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Two years on, with the case still unsolved, Nell vows to defy Lestrade and use her skills to discover the truth. She takes a lodger to cover her tracks; a young man called Sherlock Holmes. How could she know what would happen?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">‘It’s always been fun before - but now the police are the enemy…’</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? (Jenny) Start! Write, and keep writing. The only way to improve a blank page is to get some words on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve) I’m halfway between - a sort of plantser! Before I begin, I’ll know what my main characters are like, and the big plot points, and roughly where I think they’ll be. The rest unfolds as the characters take the plot and run with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? (Luke) I’d probably pick Nell, the protagonist of A House Of Mirrors. She’s a young Victorian woman with a reckless, mischievous streak. I’m planning the sequel to A House Of Mirrors right now and looking forward to seeing what she gets up to next!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy) I write the first draft quite quickly, but I’m pretty thorough in the edit. I wrote the draft of A House Of Mirrors in 6 weeks, then put it away for 6 months, and took a month to edit it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? (Ami) I was reading a Sherlock Holmes story and it struck me how little we know of Mrs Hudson. She runs 221B Baker Street, removing all domestic cares from Holmes and Watson, but we barely see her. I began to wonder about her viewpoint, and how she would tell a Holmes story. Then I wondered where Mr Hudson was. And the story unfolded...</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. (Kay) Joanne Harris. Not just for her wonderful books, but also for writing different books after the success of Chocolat. Also because she speaks her mind on Twitter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Terry Pratchett, for the amazing multilayered Discworld.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Barbara Pym. The world she depicts is small, but packed with minutely-observed details which reveal her characters’ inner lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? (Ruth) I like to have something to hang on to. Four of my books are set in Victorian London; I grew up in south London (not in Victorian times, though!), and I did a master’s degree in Victorian Literature. I still do research though, which is great fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz) If I don’t have a cup of tea on the desk, I feel a bit peculiar. I also have a little wooden ‘writing rhino’ who sits behind my keyboard. Sometimes I rub his bottom for inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? (Bill) I try not to pinch too much stuff from real life, although some of my kids’ best lines have made it to the page! Being a woman and a parent definitely influences my writing, though. A House Of Mirrors came from imagining what it would be like to be the person who cleans up after Sherlock Holmes and puts his dinner on the table, since the domestics at 221B Baker Street are largely invisible. And the book I’ve just drafted has a heavily pregnant protagonist who solves a crime in the spare moments between dealing with her toddler. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) This is hard! OK, in my criminal gang I’d have Stephen Fry, because he knows everything and we might need some completely random information; Derren Brown, to perform mind tricks on the guards and convince them we weren’t there; and Amanda Abbington, who plays Mary Watson in Sherlock, for ruthlessness. What would we be stealing? The formula for a perfect novel!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? (Marissa) I haven’t suffered from writer’s block yet - not a proper big ‘can’t write a thing’ block, anyway. If I feel stuck while writing, I get a notepad (I write on the computer) and scribble down how I feel and what I think the problem might be. Getting it down on paper helps me unstick myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? (i.e. first draft, editing, etc...) (Greg) First draft, because I get to tell myself an exciting story and meet loads of new people at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were stranded on a deserted island with only one book, what would it be? (Ominbuses, complete works, and how to books are forbidden!) (Laura) It’s probably a cliche, but I’d pick Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Or maybe Our Mutual Friend…choosing is so hard!</span></div>
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Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-40098042084756353282016-12-26T16:18:00.000-08:002016-12-26T16:18:06.308-08:00An Author a Day, part 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">LAURA GREENWOOD</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: I like to write whichever weird and wonderful tale comes into my head, which makes identifying the genre difficult even for me! My first series, Alventia, are novellas centred around Keira, aka Sleeping Beauty, and her Prince Philip, along with their allies Hansel and Gretel. It's a tale that very much told itself as I started to write it!<br />
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While I'm not writing, I work in Catering and am also an Assistant Brownie Guide Leader in the Midlands (UK). I like to bake and I love to read, and like with my writing, I read an eclectic mix of genres, and love every minute of it!<br />
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You can keep up to date with any of my writing progress by signing up to my Newsletter here: <a href="https://goo.gl/A3tI1s"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">https://goo.gl/A3tI1s</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Author Links: </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.authorlauragreenwood.co.uk/">http://www.authorlauragreenwood.co.uk</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://twitter.com/lauramg_tdir">http://twitter.com/lauramg_tdir</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7788024.Laura_Greenwood">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7788024.Laura_Greenwood</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Book link is here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N778J7W/"><span style="color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N778J7W/</span></a> and genre...let's go romance & fantasy just to be safe! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? (Jenny) Just go for it! Write whatever crazy story comes into your head, because chances are that if you want to write it, someone somewhere will want to read it! Besides, if you don't get the story out of your head, the voices will just get stronger!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve) I am most definitely a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of person! My first novella, Awakening, started off with the intention of the Sleeping Beauty character (Keira) basically becoming a bloodthirsty vampire (it was based on a couple of short stories I'd written to that effect). Did that happen when I wrote it? Of course not! With its sequel, Cloaked, I wrote the final chapter first and it is hands down one of the hardest things I've ever had to write because I had to get it to that point. However, I am now attempting a planned approached so we'll see how that goes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? (Luke) I think I have two (am I allowed to say that? I'm not sure!) The first is Annabelle from What Lies Beneath the Mask. Not many people would be able to tell, but there was a lot of me that went in to her. Including some of the bad parts. Writing her was kind of therapeutic. But also, the book had a lot of my best friend in too (she encouraged me to write it and broach the subject of abusive relationships in the first place), and that will always make that book, and it's narrator, special to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The other is Gretel from my Alventia Series. I only really saw her from the main characters POV in the first book, and that was coloured by jealousy, but the second book gave Gretel her own POV and I really grew to like her. I think she's the best character in that series!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy) My most recent published is What Lies Beneath the Mask, which I started in late January and published on the 1st December. It took me about 2 1/2 months to write the first draft, around my day job and other commitments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">However, the last novel I wrote, Siren's Storm, took just under a month (I had a slow start to NaNo!) So that's pretty much the benchmark now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? (Ami) What Lies Beneath the Mask sprung to life because I love Phantom of the Opera and was listening to the soundtrack in the car (yes I'm just that cool!) It was originally going to be a retelling, but, while it does retain some parts of that, it morphed and changed due to the influence of my best friend, Anna. It was that that moved me away from the love triangle element (because at heart I am most definitely a Raoul advocate) and moved more towards a dark past for Annabelle. But, if I'm honest with myself, the main motivator I had in writing the book was the realisation that I wanted what I was giving my character; a reason to get past a bad relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">JK Rowling! She just can't be missed from my list! I'm from the Harry Potter generation and can remember the excitement of waiting for the next book to come out (and I recently learned that my Mum was the same, and she'd wait until I was asleep so that she could nick the book and read it too!) But also, because JKR does so much good. She genuinely seems to want to make the world a better place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Brandon Sanderson. His Mistborn trilogy is the reason I got back into reading big time. Each book I pick up has such a unique world, with so many different nuances that I can't help but be drawn in. And as a wannabe Fantasy author, such unique magic systems have to be admired!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">JA Huss. Because there does need to be an Indie on the list! But also her books are so on the edge of your seat, and really twisted. I've read a book of hers that I wasn't sure I'd like because of the subject matter; I ended up giving it 5 stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? (Ruth) I'll be honest, I love the idea of historical fiction but I don't have the patience, or the time, to do the research for it. So I either make up a setting (for Fantasy), or I stick to somewhere I know but don't actually say where it is. For example, in my head, What Lies Beneath the Mask is set in York, a city in Northern England, but I never once said that. There are clues that the book is set in the UK (mainly because I'd do that without realising it!) but I don't want to impose a setting on readers who want it to look different!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz) I actually do! I like to watch murder programs (like Snapped and Fatal Attraction) while I write. My Mum's a big fan of them and I think it's rubbed off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? (Bill) Most of the time, not that much. Other than places I've been inspiring me in some way (like visiting the Red Light district in Amsterdam, that was the main influence behind a dystopia I'm writing, though maybe not in the obvious way). </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But with What Lies Beneath the Mask, there's much more of my life experience in it. There's a couple of in - jokes for my best friend in there (masquerading as in jokes between Hayley and Annabelle! And one of the stage hands, Susan). Also some of the issues that Annabelle has trusting Jack and moving forward in their relationship have roots in my own experiences (though I put Annabelle through far worse than I experienced).</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.) Vendetta question! The man who literally just dented my car! Well no, probably not! My vendetta would probably be against the optician clerk that once made me cry (I was 13, maybe 14 at the time) who accused me of sitting on my glasses (they'd broken during a maths lesson) despite the fact that I need them in order to see mere centremetres in front of me. He then wanted to charge me £150 to fix it. FYI I did get a free replacement pair after the waterworks, but it was still a traumatic experience! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? (Marissa) I'll be honest, I don't. I'll literally just sit there staring at the page. Eventually it goes away (sometimes after a few days!) Or, I'll plot out something for a different project and then get annoyed with myself that I can't write that straight away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Luke Christodoulou is an author, a poet and an English teacher (MA Applied Linguistics - University of Birmingham). He is, also, a coffee-movie-book-Nutella lover. His books have been widely translated and are available in five languages. His first book, THE OLYMPUS KILLER (#1 Bestseller - Thrillers), was released in April, 2014. The book was voted Book Of The Month for May on Goodreads (Psychological Thrillers). The book continued to be a fan favorite on Goodreads and was voted BOTM for June in the group Nothing Better Than Reading. In October, it was BOTM in the group Ebook Miner, proving it was one of the most talked-about thrillers of 2014.The second stand-alone thriller from the series, THE CHURCH MURDERS, was released April, 2015 to widespread critical and fan acclaim. DEATH OF A BRIDE was the third Greek Island Mystery to be released. Released in April, 2016 it followed in the footsteps of its successful predecessors. From its first week in release it hit the number one spot for books set in Greece.MURDER ON DISPLAY came out in 2017 and enriched the series. He is currently working on the fifth book of his planned Greek Island Mysteries book series. He resides in Limassol, Cyprus with his loving wife, his chatty daughter and his crazy newborn son.Hobbies include travelling the Greek Islands discovering new food and possible murder sites for his stories. He, also, enjoys telling people that he ‘kills people for a living’.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">THE CHURCH MURDERS: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5Z123I/ref=series_rw_dp_sw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5Z123I/ref=series_rw_dp_sw</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">DEATH OF A BRIDE: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AS1658Q/ref=series_rw_dp_sw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AS1658Q/ref=series_rw_dp_sw</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre you write: Murder/Mysteries</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Questions: MY ANSWERS / DID NOT ANSWER ALL </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">☺</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? (Jenny) Just go for it. Doubt is a killer. Dive in and keep going until you have a finished novel staring back at you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? (Steve) I normally get an idea creep out of the corners of my mind and it sticks around until it drives me crazy. As a mystery author I always plan the ending (twist, killer) as to be able to plant clues along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? (Luke) My strong female lead, named after my daughter. The Cretan, food-loving, foul-mouth Ioli Cara.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? (Joy) I give myself a year for each book. I finish earlier than that though, giving plenty of time for the book to go to my editor and for my proofreaders to provide feedback.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? (Ami)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. (Kay)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? (Ruth) My books are always set upon the Greek Isles (thus the title of the series, GREEK ISLAND MYSTERIES). I prefer to write about islands that I have visited, though I have researched and googled locations I haven’t been to before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. (Liz) Always at my desk, always deadly quiet and always with a coffee. Hot during the few winter months and Greek frappe during the nine month summer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? (Bill)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? (Aaron) (Sorry, I left all three of Aaron’s in because they were hard! Pick one or all.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? (Marissa)</span></div>
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Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-12485420709765805172016-12-24T16:16:00.000-08:002016-12-24T16:16:01.807-08:00An Author a Day, part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bio: Originally from Milwaukee, WI, JP Cawood studied storytelling at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She has developed television series & pilots for Syfy Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Destination America, History Channel, Lifetime Movie Network, and Pivot/Participant. Now telling stories through books, JP writes science fiction/fantasy because the future is now and imagination is the key that unlocks all great mysteries. As a lifelong student of the mystical unknowns, JP has traveled the world in search of truth, beauty, and goodness. JP has lived in France, Britain, India, and many cities across America. She now resides in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Website: <a href="http://www.jpcawood.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">www.jpcawood.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Genre you write: Science Fiction and fantasy. Love from Mars is a romance with a science fiction backdrop and Sam & The Secrets of the Universe is a science fiction fantasy for young adults. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Love from Mars blurb: Six people have been chosen to colonize Mars, including the charismatic and noble Ryan Clarke. Emma, a headstrong reporter, meets Ryan at the Martian Six press conference. Despite the fact that he has a one-way ticket to another planet, they can’t resist their undeniable connection. Their whirlwind romance is rocked by one shocking revelation after another as the mission prepares to launch. Can their love transcend space and time? Let the countdown begin...</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? Don’t be afraid of what other people will think of your writing. Don’t let other people’s imagined opinions be your stumbling block. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? I love to outline and collect the entire story before digging in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? I love Ananda, the female lead in Sam & The Secrets of the Universe. The inspiration for her came from my cat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? I wrote my first two books in a year and a half. Six months of that were full-time and the rest was while juggling a job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What motivated you to write your novel? The story for the Secrets of the Universe came to me in a flash. I had the entire outline written in one hour. I like to call it divine inspiration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. I really like Tom Robbins because he has a really unique style. I also like the imagination of Neal Shusterman. Jean Houston writes non-fiction, but her ideas and experience make her books full of inspiration and exciting, new ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? I like to explore different settings because I can make my own rules. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? E.g. an object you have to have on your desk, a particular drink or snack. I like to take breaks to walk outside and clear my head. I often come back with new ideas or whole scenes of dialogue figured out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? I like to think I am a vehicle or channel for the story, but by being that channel, it’s impossible not to add my own ideals, perspectives, and experiences into the narrative. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you were a ninja with a vendetta to whom would it be? OR If you had to throw something into mount Doom to save the world, what would it be? OR If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist who would they be and what would you be after? I’d have to throw myself into Mount Doom because those moments of sacrifice are so juicy. I imagine I’d come out the other side with a new super power as a reward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">How do you deal with writer's block? If I am truly blocked, I won’t write that day. I’ll do whatever else makes me feel good and then get back to it the next day. If it’s a minor block, I’ll take a walk, work out, talk to a friend, or read another book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? I love the first draft because it can be a natural flow of thoughts and ideas. I truly hate the formatting. That’s the word part for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">if you were stranded on a dessert island wth only one book, what would it be? The Alchemist because it would inspire me to become the sun, the wind, and the sea. </span></div>
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Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-29072430611422026912016-12-23T16:09:00.000-08:002016-12-23T16:09:03.463-08:00An Author a Day, part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">M. BLACK (AMI BLACKWELDER)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bio: M.Black is the pen name of Ami Blackwelder, paranormal author. She graduated from UCF with her BA in English and teaching and has spent ten years traveling the world. She has lived in Thailand, China, and even Korea. All her experiences shape her story telling and give her a deep appreciation for cultures and our world. Find her at <a href="http://amiblackwelder.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193); color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">http://AmiBlackwelder.blogspot.com</span></a> and <a href="http://mblackdystopianthrillers.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193); color: #0463c1; line-height: normal;">MBlackDystopianThrillers.blogspot.com</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Genre: YA SyFy Dystopians</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s the one piece of advice you’d give someone wanting to write? I’d tell them to think of anything else they wold rather be doing, something else they love more and do that. If they are still here, then write. Write. Write. Get something on the page, tweak it. You get better with time and don’t be too hard on yourself. Oh, and have a day job;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">How do you approach your stories; do you plan everything out before starting, or are you more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of a person? I have a general idea of a story I want to tell. Usually the beginning and ending, but the middle is up for grabs and often characters don’t do what you think they will;) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of all your characters, do you have a favorite? Good one. My favorite character must be MACI from Exotiqa. She is a robot and I loved getting inside of her head. This book won’t be out until spring on 2017, but will hit Kindle Scout first;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">How long did it take you to write your most recent book(s)? Simulation is most recent finished book. I just finished Quantum State, but it hasn’t been edited and reedited, and beta-read yet. It took about 3 months as most of my books take. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">What motivated you to write your novel? The idea of the future and how scary it could be if we don’t change our ways.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Name three favorite authors and why they impress you. Gosh, George Lucs, Jane Austen, and Veronica Roth. They all did something amazing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Would you rather set your story in a place and time you are familiar with, or would you rather research a totally different setting? I love future settings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Do you have any little writing rituals or quirks? Tea, but that’s not a quirk. Maybe I’m boring? LOL. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">How do you own experiences influence what you write? I think all of my travels and expanded knowledge of cultures can’t help but change my perspective as an author, making me more unique or different from many other authors out there. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you had a group of celebrities to plan the perfect heist with who would they be and what would you be after? Gosh, something really valuable like a grand painting. Maybe Gustaov Klimt’s masterpiece from the perfume giant Estee Lauder. The celebrities would have to a mix of brawn, brains and beauty for distraction. The Rock, Ned the Science Guy, and Claudia Schiffer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">How do you deal with writer's block? I usually have many ideas and have to settle on one that sticks with me and ferments for a period of time. But if a block does happen, usually watching television or a movie sparks it again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">What is your favorite part of the writing process? I love writing the last sentence of my novel. That is my favorite part. But I also love when the book has been finalized with edits and beta-readers and I’ve perfected to where I want it to be. That’s always a good feeling.</span></span></div>
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Amy Blackwelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05097097967425062223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8720105206774807997.post-13777032049518616462016-12-22T14:05:00.000-08:002016-12-22T14:05:45.299-08:00KINDLE SCOUT ALUMNI bring you a basket of books for Christmas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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KINDLE SCOUT ALUMNI share their novels with you for Christmas and the New Year. Enjoy NEW AUTHORS and NOVELs for your New Years here! We guarantee you will find something you love below. Check us out!<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33253349-a-house-of-mirrors">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33253349-a-house-of-mirrors</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MXSMWW3/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MXSMWW3/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Death of a Bride by Luke Christodoulou</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415743"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29586791-death-of-a-bride">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29586791-death-of-a-bride</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US:</i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Death-Bride-stand-alone-destined-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B01AS1658Q/"> https://www.amazon.com/Death-Bride-stand-alone-destined-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B01AS1658Q/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A Jar of Thursday by Liz Hedgecock</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31865956-a-jar-of-thursday">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31865956-a-jar-of-thursday</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Secret Notebook of Sherlock Holmes by Liz Hedgecock</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33141247-warriors">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33141247-warriors</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N3QVFZO/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N3QVFZO/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N3QVFZO/" target="_blank"><img alt="Warriors" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33141247_zps0sgus5we.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Church Murders by Luke Christodoulou</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25261163-the-church-murders">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25261163-the-church-murders</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US:</i></b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5Z123I/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5Z123I/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5Z123I/" target="_blank"><img alt="The Church Murders" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/25261163_zpsa6vawqtf.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Adoption by Greg Meritt </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33229302-the-adoption---a-psychological-thriller">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33229302-the-adoption---a-psychological-thriller</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N56RWEE/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N56RWEE/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N56RWEE/" target="_blank"><img alt="The Adoption" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33229302_zps6inusaqg.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Split by Carey Lewis </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32467242-the-split">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32467242-the-split</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M0HFWR7/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M0HFWR7/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M0HFWR7/" target="_blank"><img alt="The Split" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/32467242_zpsbdxzp0wl.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Crime</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Olympus Killer by Luke Christodoulou </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415769"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22435571-the-olympus-killer">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22435571-the-olympus-killer</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415771"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JMTRPTE/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JMTRPTE/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JMTRPTE/" target="_blank"><img alt="The Olympus Killer" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/22435571_zpsdonh8o9k.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Romance </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Merely Players by Patricia Thomson</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32700583-merely-players">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32700583-merely-players</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><i>Amazon US:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415775"> </a></i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M65LWYS">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M65LWYS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M65LWYS" target="_blank"><img alt="Merely Players" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/32700583_zpsau6accy9.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Ideal Girl by Jenny O’Brien </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26219079-ideal-girl">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26219079-ideal-girl</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ideal-Girl-Irish-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B014RQAGVA/">https://www.amazon.com/Ideal-Girl-Irish-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B014RQAGVA/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ideal-Girl-Irish-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B014RQAGVA/" target="_blank"><img alt="Ideal Girl" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/26219079_zpsdrjzktxa.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>She Speaks to Angels by Ami Blackwelder</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11866271-she-speaks-to-angels">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11866271-she-speaks-to-angels</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007PSPT5Q/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007PSPT5Q/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007PSPT5Q/" target="_blank"><img alt="Blackwelder" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/11866271_zpszaypfvv6.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>My Runaway Bride by Marissa Marchan</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MYZKINU/">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MYZKINU/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MYZKINU/" target="_blank"><img alt="Runaway" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/PROJECT_COVER_IMAGE_2._SY300__zpstks3srqh.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A Whyte Christmas by Michele Brouder</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32868350-a-whyte-christmas">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32868350-a-whyte-christmas</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MD1N213/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MD1N213/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MD1N213/" target="_blank"><img alt="Whyte" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/32868350_zps9rqhg3ln.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Love from Mars by JP Cawood </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33411007-love-from-mars">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33411007-love-from-mars</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415793"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mars-JP-Cawood-ebook/dp/B01MQXG6XO/">https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mars-JP-Cawood-ebook/dp/B01MQXG6XO/</a></span></div>
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<b><i>: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mars-JP-Cawood-ebook/dp/B01MQXG6XO/" target="_blank"><img alt="Love From Mars" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33411007_zpsy28cy046.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>What Lies Beneath the Mask by Laura Greenwood</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32367417-what-lies-beneath-the-mask">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32367417-what-lies-beneath-the-mask</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N778J7W/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N778J7W/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N778J7W/" target="_blank"><img alt="Mask" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/What_Lies_Beneath_The_Mask_Laura_Greenwood_zpslhbxlqw6.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Unhappy Ever After Girl by Jenny O’Brien</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30318784-unhappy-ever-after-girl">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30318784-unhappy-ever-after-girl</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415802"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G2NVJJY/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G2NVJJY/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Day the Flowers Died by Ami Blackwelder </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415807"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7829347-the-day-the-flowers-died">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7829347-the-day-the-flowers-died</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Day-Flowers-Died-World-Romance-ebook/dp/B00375LKC2/">https://www.amazon.com/Day-Flowers-Died-World-Romance-ebook/dp/B00375LKC2/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Day-Flowers-Died-World-Romance-ebook/dp/B00375LKC2/" target="_blank"><img alt="flowers" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/7829347_zps6lxfmm1c.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>My Amnesia Girl by Marissa Marchan </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415809"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32985503-my-amnesia-girl-book-1">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32985503-my-amnesia-girl-book-1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Amnesia-Girl-Book-Spoiled-ebook/dp/B00XTCN1P2/">https://www.amazon.com/My-Amnesia-Girl-Book-Spoiled-ebook/dp/B00XTCN1P2/</a></span><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Amnesia-Girl-Book-Spoiled-ebook/dp/B00XTCN1P2/" target="_blank"><img alt="amnesia" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/32985503_zpsxxfoctjr.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Englishwoman in Paris by Jenny O’Brien</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_498415817"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33148680-englishwoman-in-paris">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33148680-englishwoman-in-paris</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N593Y7T/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N593Y7T/</a></span><br />
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<b><i> </i></b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N593Y7T/" target="_blank"><img alt="Paris" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33148680_zps8a0ebkaz.jpg" /></a></i></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Young Adult</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 37, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #ff2500; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Women’s Fiction</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Beneath the Skin by Kyla Stone</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290438-beneath-the-skin">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290438-beneath-the-skin</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><i> </i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MXVABNZ/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MXVABNZ/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MXVABNZ/" target="_blank"><img alt="Beneath" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33290438_zpswumy4bi0.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Whit’s End by L Virelli</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33021015-whit-s-end">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33021015-whit-s-end</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Whits-End-L-Virelli-ebook/dp/B01N77QY32/%C2%A0">https://www.amazon.com/Whits-End-L-Virelli-ebook/dp/B01N77QY32/<b> </b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Whits-End-L-Virelli-ebook/dp/B01N77QY32/" target="_blank"><img alt="whit" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33021015_zpsz7pvbvp5.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Literary Fiction </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Lily of the Valley by Ruth White </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26338743-mansions-of-karma">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26338743-mansions-of-karma</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US</i>: </b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MS9W1DU">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MS9W1DU</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MS9W1DU" target="_blank"><img alt="Lil" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/51GnvalBUoL_zpshhybwnbp.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Anthologies</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Home Avenue by L Virelli (Memoir)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13342968-home-avenue">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13342968-home-avenue</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LPJ9YDI/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LPJ9YDI/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LPJ9YDI/" target="_blank"><img alt="home" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/13342968_zps0umzpela.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Winter Solstice </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33141344-winter-solstice">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33141344-winter-solstice</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1KZRSI/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1KZRSI/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1KZRSI/" target="_blank"><img alt="Winter" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33141344_zpsdikghomg.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Christmas in Love</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33362012-christmas-in-love">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33362012-christmas-in-love</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US:</i></b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQVG0JL/">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQVG0JL/</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQVG0JL/" target="_blank"><img alt="Christmas" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/Christmas_In_Love_Anthology_zpsbaisxfz4.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 37, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #ff2500; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Paranormal/Urban Fantasy </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Different Lee by Bill Hiatt </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32871637-different-lee">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32871637-different-lee</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MRFR9I1/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MRFR9I1/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MRFR9I1/" target="_blank"><img alt="Different" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/32871637_zpsmlohvrty.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Kelpie Dreams by Steve Vernon </b></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #0463c1; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8px;">
<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><b><i>Goodreads</i></b><i>: </i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29996529-kelpie-dreams"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29996529-kelpie-dreams</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US:<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CYNM152/%C2%A0"> </a></i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CYNM152/%C2%A0">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CYNM152/<b> </b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CYNM152" target="_blank"><img alt="Dreams" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/29996529_zpsu0zdub90.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Raven’s Peak by Lincoln Cole </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads</i></b>: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30657877-raven-s-peak">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30657877-raven-s-peak</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FVEZ6G2/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FVEZ6G2/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FVEZ6G2/" target="_blank"><img alt="Raven" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/30657877_zpsefulhxkt.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Clare Daly: Reluctant Soul Saver by Michele Brouder </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26800938-claire-daly">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26800938-claire-daly</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015NCLL02/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015NCLL02/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015NCLL02/" target="_blank"><img alt="Daly" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/26800938_zpsatjxegbp.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Living With Your Past Selves by Bill Hiatt </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17258249-living-with-your-past-selves">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17258249-living-with-your-past-selves</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00987M4CI/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00987M4CI/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00987M4CI/" target="_blank"><img alt="Past" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/17258249_zps7kylnscp.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Kelpie Christmas by Steve Vernon </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32603179-kelpie-christmas">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32603179-kelpie-christmas</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M7NHRRV/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M7NHRRV/</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M7NHRRV/" target="_blank"><img alt="Christmas" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/32603179_zps5citkbw6.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>We Walk in Darkness by Bill Hiatt </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26860715-we-walk-in-darkness">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26860715-we-walk-in-darkness</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01603XCFU/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01603XCFU/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01603XCFU/" target="_blank"><img alt="Darkness" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/26860715_zpslfdcrt9r.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Kelpie Snow by Steve Vernon </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33381568-kelpie-snow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33381568-kelpie-snow</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kelpie-Snow-Paranormal-Romantic-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01N4BWL6C/">https://www.amazon.com/Kelpie-Snow-Paranormal-Romantic-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01N4BWL6C/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kelpie-Snow-Paranormal-Romantic-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01N4BWL6C/" target="_blank"><img alt="Snpw" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33381568_zpsl3arwepy.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Fantasy</b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Beyond the Forest by Kay L Ling</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32808048-beyond-the-forest">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32808048-beyond-the-forest</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M6AIPYX/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M6AIPYX/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M6AIPYX/" target="_blank"><img alt="Forest" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/32808048_zpsa8m48rgp.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Sam and The Secrets of the Universe by JP Cawood</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33411055-sam-the-secrets-of-the-universe"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193);">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33411055-sam-the-secrets-of-the-universe</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US:</i></b> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0998378623/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0998378623/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0998378623/" target="_blank"><img alt="Sam" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/33411055_zpsmw8araqa.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Awakening by Laura Greenwood</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24831115-awakening">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24831115-awakening</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UMDL8BK/">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UMDL8BK/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UMDL8BK/" target="_blank"><img alt="Awakening" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/b629650f-adf3-4dd2-8b85-805b9eb5731a_zpsjcddpnl0.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Science Fiction </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Graveyard of Empires by Lincoln Cole</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26050767-graveyard-of-empires">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26050767-graveyard-of-empires</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Graveyard-Empires-Lincoln-Cole-ebook/dp/B0136VQIYQ/">https://www.amazon.com/Graveyard-Empires-Lincoln-Cole-ebook/dp/B0136VQIYQ/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i> </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Graveyard-Empires-Lincoln-Cole-ebook/dp/B0136VQIYQ/" target="_blank"><img alt="Graveyard" src="http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/tdir_blog/26050767_zpsc1ljom0j.jpg" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Love, Lies & Clones by Joynell Schultz</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32847343-love-lies-clones">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32847343-love-lies-clones</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Amazon US: </i></b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Lies-Clones-Joynell-Schultz-ebook/dp/B01MXTGIZL/">https://www.amazon.com/Love-Lies-Clones-Joynell-Schultz-ebook/dp/B01MXTGIZL/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The Teristaque Chronicles by Aaron Frale </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i>Goodreads: </i></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30302158-the-teristaque-chronicles">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30302158-the-teristaque-chronicles</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Othello and Zombies by Aaron Frale </b></span></div>
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