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Diane Vanaskie Mulligan

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Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, Poetry

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July 2011

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I am the author of three novels. My most recent, What She Inherits, was published in January, 2017. My first novel, Watch Me Disappear (2012), was a finalist in the Kindle Book Review's Best Indie Book Awards in the Young Adult category in 2013, and my second, The Latecomers Fan Club (2013), was named a 2014 IndieReader Discovery Award winner. In 2015, I released a brief guide book to self-publishing called The Sane Person's Guide to Self-Publishing. ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 2,310 ratings · 191 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	What She Inherits 4.14 avg rating — 2,099 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Watch Me Disappear 3.47 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Latecomers Fan Club 3.38 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Sane Person's Guide to Self-Publishing: One Indie Author Shares What She's Learned 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Life That's Right for One 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Last spring, when I was trying to encourage my students to create "poetry films" for the Rabbit Heart Film Festival, a poetry film festival based right here in Worcester, I decided that the best way to motivate them was to make a film myself.

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The Red Garden

by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)

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A Spool of Blue Thread

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