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Here be Dragons: Courage after Trauma

My mother prized being safe over living large. Better safe than sorry was her motto. She had a convert's fervor when it came to safeguarding her family against life's calamities.

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Bibliography for Dead Stop

Dead Stop required its own in-depth research, mainly a long look into the business of railroading. It’s still a shorter list than the one I generated for Blood on the Tracks because I’d built my foundation with the first book in the series.

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Bibliography for Blood on the Tracks

Sometimes I think my decision to write a novel was to give myself an excuse to read what I wanted to read. Here’s a partial list of the books that gave me the foundation I needed to write Blood on the Tracks.

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What I’m Reading | May 2020

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What I’m Reading

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Series: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Part 2

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Series: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Part 1

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Series: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

“You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.” — Michael Connelly, The Black Echo Part 1 of this Series: An Introduction to PTSD I first became interested in post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as research for a novel. My protagonist is a former Marine who served during the Iraq War. She worked in […]

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