Hayden Thorne





Hayden Thorne

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August 26, 1968

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I’ve lived most of my life in the San Fran­cisco Bay Area though I wasn’t born there (or, indeed, the USA). I’m mar­ried with no kids and three cats, am a cycling nut (go Team Garmin!), and my day job involves art­work, crazy (read: incom­pre­hen­si­bly fun) cowork­ers who spe­cial­ize in all kinds of media, and the occa­sional strange cus­tomer requests involv­ing papier mache fish with sparkly scales.

I’m a writer of young adult fic­tion, spe­cial­iz­ing in con­tem­po­rary fan­tasy, his­tor­i­cal fan­tasy, and his­tor­i­cal gen­res. My books range from a super­hero fan­tasy series to reworked folk­tales to Vic­to­rian ghost fic­tion. My themes are coming-of-age, with very lit­tle focus on romance (most of the time) and more on indi­vid­ual...more


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Published on May 13, 2012 23:31 • 65 views
Average rating: 3.88 · 633 ratings · 171 reviews · 27 distinct works · Similar authors
Rise of Heroes (Masks #1)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
Evolution (Masks #2)
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
Ordinary Champions (Masks #3)
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
Curse of Arachnaman (Masks #4)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Mimi Attacks (Masks, #5)
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
Arabesque
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Desmond and Garrick: Book 1
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Renfred's Masquerade
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
Icarus in Flight
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008
The Glass Minstrel
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
More books by Hayden Thorne…
Rise of Heroes Evolution Ordinary Champions Curse of Arachnaman Mimi Attacks Dr. Morbid's Castle of Blood
Masks (6 books)
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4.018134715025907 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 386 ratings
Desmond and Garrick: Book 1 Desmond and Garrick: Book 2
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3.5142857142857142 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 35 ratings

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“I hated meatloaf. It was like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. So I told Mom because I was honest that way. I sat back, squared my shoulders, and met her eyes, all confident-like.

"Mom, meatloaf's like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. It should be outlawed, frankly, and serving it for dinner is like child abuse and should carry with it some pretty stiff penalties.”
Hayden Thorne, Curse of Arachnaman

“Look, if I were straight, you'd be grandparents before your time. You should be relieved that I'm gay. Aren't you grateful?”
Hayden Thorne, Mimi Attacks

“And so the Afternoon Weekday Date Scorecard went like this: gay boys, 3. Bedsheets, below zero. Vatican-enforced check on virginity, 10. Sometimes life just plain sucked beyond the suckiest of suckage. And I was out of clean bedsheets, too.”
Hayden Thorne, Curse of Arachnaman

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