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  <name><![CDATA[Trisha Barnes]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[     Trisha Barnes was raised in the small and remote Northern California town of Happy Camp.  Her creative writing and fondness of reading grew as a result of the distant nature of the community she lived in -- without reliable television signals, radio stations, or other outside information she turned to the local library for entertainment, news, and a window to the outside world.  The town librarian had to frequently call Trisha's parents when she was in fourth grade to get permission for her to read the Agatha Christie and Hitchcock novels which were technically in the adult reader section.
     Leaving the small town as quickly as she could after high school, she attended College of the Siskiyous in Weed, California -- alternating terms attending school and working full time.
     She was employed with the Forest Service, a building renovator, a Weed restaurant, and her favorite -- Croman Corporation.
     With Croman, she traveled the Northwest working on landings under the logging helicopters.  She learned to coil chokers, stamp logs, buck timber, and was training on the loader when she decided to return, once again, to school.
     Trisha eventually finished college, and during one of her final classes at Northwest Christian University she was struck by a comment made by one of her professors -- he took her aside, commenting on her class writings as some of the best he'd ever seen.  
     Publishing a book was definately on her life's list of things to do, but almost ten years would pass before she returned to her dusty manuscripts.
     Now a community children's advocate and active in school board oversight, she has published her first book, &quot;The Klamath Treasure&quot; -- ironically, stories for her children about the very place she couldn't wait to leave as a child.
     Aside from her book, she has created the Ten Percent Title program -- encouraging authors to donate 10% of their book sale profits to non-profits in their hometowns.  Literacy projects are one of her favorites.
     Trisha plans to continue writing, and is currently working on an advocacy handbook for parents and has outlined a mystery-thriller novel.
     Find out more about Trisha Barnes on her official website at www.trishabarnes.net.  Her current title can be found at www.rivercanyonpress.com or on www.amazon.com.
]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Mark Twain, my first-grade teacher Mrs. Collard, and my friend Bob Stockbridge]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Medford, Oregon</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Klamath Treasure: The Adventure of Euclid Plutarch Hammarsen]]></title>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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