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Jefferson Smith
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What’s the difference between a summary, a blurb, and a premise statement? If you don’t know the answer to this question, your marketing and your writing may both be suffering for it. Many new writers treat all three more or less interchangeably. When asked for a blurb, they’ll write a summary. When asked for their premise, they recite their blurb. It’s true that all three are a form of encapsu...
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Strange Places (Finding Tayna, #1)
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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Bodies of Evidence
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The Old Soft Sell
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| Joe Dobbs was big for his age and all he ever wanted to be was a soldier, like his dad. But not this way. When aliens annex the Earth and conscript every able-bodied child between the ages of 5 and 12 to serve in their Congressional Army, 14 year old...more | |
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| Everything about you, including the world you live in and the laws of nature, are all part of a vast computer simulation. And when Martin Banks, amateur hacker, gets his hands on the source code for his own life, it sets off a mad dash adventure that...more | |
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| You knew it as a kid - household chores suck. Big time. But you had it easy compared to the world of Wool, where even washing the windows can kill you. Told from the perspective of a revolving door of protagonists, Wool will drop you into an undergro...more | |
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| Lock and Jean, stalwart buddy thieves, continue their high stakes, high risk lifestyles in this adventurous sequel. While the first book was a widely scoped "family of thieves" tale, this time out, were focusing on just the two friends, and by my lig...more | |
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Strange Places (Finding Tayna #1) is the first book in a series. The story begins with Tayna in an orphanage and housed with the “unlovables.” The cruel religious sisters who run the orphanage abuse all of the children, but especially Tayna’s grou...
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is 28% done with Wool Omnibus: So far, I'm not feeling it. The reveal of the world is rather slow. A lot of energy is spent on developing characters we'll never see again. I've seen a couple of logical inconsistencies that are bugging me. And the characters seem consistently melodramatic in their responses to sadness. There's a story here, and Howie tells it in a nice, slow, pot-boiler fashion, but I'm not sure it's a story that I care about.
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“You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
“There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
“Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
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“Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
“There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.”
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― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
“You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places
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Nov 04, 2012 07:51pm
Did you change your website name? I tried going to it, and it failed to do so. :<
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Welcome aboard, Lucinda. Yes, working in special effects was a lot of fun, but exhausting, too. I'm glad I did it, but I'm glad I do other things now, too. :-)
Dear Jefferson Smith, I would like to thank you for the unexpected but most humbling friendship request here on Goodreads, which is a fanatastic site where one is able to converse with so many likeminded people both readers and authors. I am a huge fan of the fantasy genre amongst others, and i do hope that in the future i have the oportunity of reading your book 'Strange Places: finding Tayna' which caught my eye instantly with its striking cover and origional plot.
Thank you once again and do feel free to discuss anything about books, writing, ideas and thoughts.
Lucinda x
(oh, and wow at working in special effects! That must have been increadible).
Jennifer wrote: "Hey, so when do you think you're next section to the Tayna series will come out?"Thanks for asking, Jennifer. My publisher tells me the release is scheduled for December, although we're talking about releasing some sneak peeks before that. If you want to stay abreast of any announcements, friend me on FB or follow me on Twitter (@Jefficus). (There's also a cool contest going on right now, which you can learn about at those same coordinates.)
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