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Stefan Petrucha (born January 27, 1959) is an American writer for adults and young adults. He has written graphic novels in the The X-Files and Nancy Drew series, as well as science fiction and horror.
Born in the Bronx, he has spent time in the big city and the suburbs, and now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, fellow writer Sarah Kinney, and their daughters. At times he has been a tech writer, an educational writer, a public relations writer and an editor for trade journals, but his preference is for fiction in all its forms.



This week, James Patterson took out an ad on the cover of Publishers Weekly that read, Who Will Save Our Bookstores? Embedded in that who is the notion that publishing is somehow driven by conscious decisions.


On micro level, sure, but when talking about the "industry," frankly, the only way to explain half the books out there is that, on a macro scale, things operate mechanistically, like cap...

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Published on April 25, 2013 12:23 • 16 views
Average rating: 3.67 · 5,494 ratings · 982 reviews · 112 distinct works · Similar authors
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
This is How You Lose Her
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read in February, 2013
It's very rare these days for me to find an author whose prose simply delights me. Diaz does that for me, certainly with Oscar, but just a tad less so here. On the down side, with the short story format, at times the same themes cropped up with littl...more
Yestermorrow by Stefan Petrucha
" This book has probably changed my life, in ways I haven't even noticed yet, though I've noticed a few so far.

I read first when I was too young to really understand what was happening, but I enjoyed it all the same.

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Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
" Carver Young wants to be a detective, so when he is adopted from the orphange in 1895 by Detective Hawking of the New Pinkertons agency, he is happy. Several other children in the orphange have been adopted by families in the same circle, his frie... " Read more of this review »
Stefan Petrucha is on page 560 of 1044 of Reamde: Enjoyed it for the most part, but had to stop and read other books for a writing project. May get back to it, may not. The idea of a game world influencing the real world is interesting, but seems to devolve into a straight thriller afterwards.
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“Because if I smashed anything, Team Jaiden would just get me into a behavior modification program, or maybe some doctor would put be on drugs for my ADD or bipolarism or depression or whatever they're calling being alive and feeling royally screwed these days.”
Stefan Petrucha, Teen, Inc.

“It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others. ”
Stefan Petrucha, Ripper

“Backed into a corner, the poor can riot, but the rich start war.”
Stefan Petrucha, Ripper

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Stefan Petrucha Hope you enjoy Melissa - and good luck in the giveaway!


Melissa Keith Thank you for accepting my friend request, Stefan. I look forward to reading DEAD MANN and RIPPER. I hope I win RIPPER. Happy St. Paddy's Day!


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