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Joseph Giddings

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Joseph spends his days performing feats of heroism as an IT guru in Winterville, NC. At night he’s a superhero to his wife and four year old son. When he’s not saving the world from crashed hard drives and rescuing lost toy pickup trucks, he’s playing video games, watching TV, reading, writing, or searching for alien life with his telescope. In addition to filling the role of Assistant Managing Editor at Tangent Online, Joseph has written fiction that has appeared at Ray Gun Revival and Mystic Signals. His story "Terminal" will appear in the Dark Stars Anthology from Earthbound Fiction.

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I Wrote Something!

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.

Kidding aside, I’ve finally found motivation to write. I’ve been plagued with ideas for stories based my Mist world and finally found the means to make it happed – The Magic Spreadsheet. It works similar to something I used several years ago, except now a lot of people can see it and I feel compelled to at least make my minimum word coun...

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Average rating: 4.50 · 8 ratings · 5 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors

	Bull Spec #6 (Bull Spec, #6) by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (Editor), Kenneth Schneyer (Goodreads Author), Larry Nolen (Contributor) 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bull Spec #5 (Bull Spec, #5) by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (Editor), Preston Grassmann, Angi Shearstone (Illustrator) 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bull Spec #2 (Bull Spec, #2) by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (Editor), Kaolin Fire, Joey Jordan (Illustrator) 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Stars: The Year's Best Science Fiction Short Stories by Gary Cuba, Joseph Giddings (Goodreads Author), Jennifer R. Povey (Goodreads Author) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bull Spec #3 (Bull Spec, #3) by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (Editor), David Steffen, Robert B. Laughlin (Contributor) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bull Spec #4 (Bull Spec, #4) by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (Editor), Don Norum, Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Spirit Eater (The Legend of Eli Monpress, #3)

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Joseph Giddings rated a book 4 of 5 stars Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Joseph Giddings rated a book 3 of 5 stars Like Water for Quarks by Elton Elliott	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Joseph Giddings is currently reading The Spirit Eater (The Legend of Eli Monpress, #3) by Rachel Aaron (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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