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Emerald Barnes

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I'm a starving artist of the writing kind, and I have a BA in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing. I have been writing since high school, but I became really serious with it after my first writing class in college. From then on, my writing has blossomed, and I love to share my writing with others. I have always believed that reading is a way to live life through another person's world and escape ours for a just a little bit.

She's the author of two books and continues to work on getting more books out.


I have the writing blahs. What are the writing blahs? They aren’t easily defined. Mostly it’s feeling blah about writing or editing. Look at that. I was wrong. It was pretty simply to define.


So, I seem to have these. I’m in the process of proofreading Knight’s Academy one (hopefully) final time. I’m working on a query letter (some), and I’m writing book two in the Knight’s Academy trilogy and a...

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Published on May 22, 2013 22:01
Average rating: 3.76 · 83 ratings · 42 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
Read Me Dead
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
Piercing Through the Darkness
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
Peppermints and Murder
2.33 of 5 stars 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011
A Chance Meeting
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011
First 5 Chapters - Volume 2
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4.92 of 5 stars 4.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
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“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
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“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
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message 3: by Zoë

Zoë Sharp Hi Emerald. Thanks so much for Friending me. How's the writing going with you?


Emerald Barnes Avry15 wrote: "Hi Ms. Emerald, thanks for the ad..:D
Read Me Dead has earned that spot in the must read books of 2012.. because it's worth it..:D"


Well thank you! :D

Thanks for adding me back. I do appreciate it!


Avry15 Hi Ms. Emerald, thanks for the ad..:D
Read Me Dead has earned that spot in the must read books of 2012.. because it's worth it..:D


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