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http://secret-paths.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Having gained his mathematics degree at 20, Alan McCluskey turned to teaching English as a foreign language, which he did for some 15 years. He attended fine arts school studying cinema and video, and went on to make art videos and direct a number of short TV programmes. More recently he has had several photo exhibitions.
He enjoyed the challenge of organising wide scale networks. He coordinated a worldwide network of Internet domain name companies and ran a European network of high-level educational experts. In a quite different sphere, he created "The Hundred Venues" with friends: a network of screening venues for electronic arts across Europe.
As CEO of a short-lived Internet start up, he drafted business plans and tried to convince inves...more

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I’m working in depth through Boy & Girl (that’s the name of my latest novel, folks!) reading it out loud, sentence by sentence, to hear if it sounds right. It’s an excellent method. A chapter can take hours to do, but it is really worth it. read more »

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	The Reaches (The Storytellers Quest #1) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Keeper's Daughter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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The Reaches (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

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Description: Book 1 of The Storyteller's Quest The quiet town of Avan with its port, its provincial university and its conservative seafaring folk would hardly be the place you'd expect to run into an adventure and frankly neither Brent nor Sally nor Keira were going out of their way to have one. At least nothing more than the occasional torrid love affair and the awkward self-questioning typical of many young adults like themselves. Sally was finishing her studies in the Theosophy Department of the University hoping to become Professor Rafter's assistant. Keira, Sally's best friend and lover, was a young librarian who occasionally sang in a popular folk group. And Brent was a would-be writer who couldn't quite get his act together. When he wasn't exploring his dreams, he spent hours wandering the streets and lanes in and around the town in search of inspiration. Yet unbeknown to them forces had long been at work that would throw them together in a series of adventures that were going to tax them to the extreme forcing them to discover gifts and to develop abilities that went way beyond what would seem possible. Their's would be a voyage from the real world to the realm of dreams and on into another world called the Reaches that at first sight looked deceptively like their own. http://secret-paths.com

Alan is Currently Reading

Alan is currently reading:

Specials (Uglies, #3)

by Scott Westerfeld

bookshelves: dystopian, ya, currently-reading

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Alan is on page 248 of 384 of Specials: Can't put the thing down! Specials (Uglies, #3) by Scott Westerfeld progress:	My rating:
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Alan is currently reading: Specials (Uglies, #3) by Scott Westerfeld	My rating:
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Alan added: On Another Level by Louise Rought read in March, 2012	My rating:
Mar 12, 2012 11:17am
Alan marked as to-read: City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1) by Tad Williams	My rating:
Mar 09, 2012 07:52am
Alan is reading On Another Level: I had high hopes for this book. The plot interested me and I was looking forward to enjoying reading it. Instead, I found a book that is so badly written that I wonder why Vanguard Press let it get through. One hears a lot about how much better books from established editors are than Indie books. I will read on a little bit, there is always something to learn, especially from projects that are not successful. On Another Level by Louise Rought	My rating:
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Alan added: Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2) by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author) read in February, 2012	My rating:
Feb 22, 2012 12:21pm
Alan marked as to-read: Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1) by Veronica Rossi (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Feb 16, 2012 11:52am
Alan liked Kellyflower's review of Under the Never Sky: " I think some people may have a problem with the whole "scent" thing in the book. How Perry can smell "tempers". I didn't have a problem with it. It did take me about 60 or so pages to really get into the story, but once I did, man oh man! Perry is... " Read more of this review »
Feb 16, 2012 11:52am · see review
Alan marked as to-read: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers	My rating:
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