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Christina Harlin

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in Springfield Missouri, The United States

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http://www.christinaharlin.com

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Paranormal, Chick Lit, Fiction

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Shirley Jackson

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Christina Harlin is the author of supernatural thrillers including the "Othernaturals" series featuring the adventures of a team of ghost-hunters, each with his or her own otherworldly talents, passions and secrets. Visit www.othernaturals.com for videos and extra information about the team and look for Othernaturals Book Five in Fall 2016. Christina makes it a practice to conduct her own explorations of Missouri and Kansas haunts for inspiration and fun. Her stand-alone works of supernatural fiction are "Deck of Cards" and "Never Alone".

Christina has worked over seventeen years as a legal secretary and paralegal in law firms in Kansas City, and her experiences there have played no small role inspiring her comic mystery series of Boss boo ...more

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In your opinion, how can computer games be of some use to a writer?

Christina Harlin Greetings, and thanks for your question! This is actually quite an important subject to me.

Computer gaming has been one of my favorite activities for …moreGreetings, and thanks for your question! This is actually quite an important subject to me.

Computer gaming has been one of my favorite activities for the last 25 years. Games have been through more technological changes and advances than I can count, but one thing remains the same: the writing and story matter. Awesome graphics and a big budget are nice - a great story, however, makes a game relevant far beyond its brief technological milieu. Ask me to list my favorite games over the last near-three decades, and I'll list games that had stories and characters I've never forgotten.

On a purely intellectual level, computer gaming has taught me many things: how to think "outside the box" to problem-solve; how to adapt to new situations; the difference between challenging an audience and frustrating them; and the wonderful experience of immersing myself in another world. Doing so is not only fun, but relieves stress and cheers me up. Many games let me explore fantastic places (right now, I'm touring post-apocalyptic Boston in Fallout 4, for example, and I'll never forget touring Neuschwanstein castle in Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within or creeping around nighttime Los Angeles in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines).

So for these reasons and many others, computer gaming has been a major, and positive, part of shaping my worldview. Like great books and films, computer games can be inspirational, and to my mind, the more stories we have in the world, the better! (less)

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Christina Harlin This is a timely question because I'm working this mystery into the plot of my next novel: what happened to my grandmother's family? They were ordinar…moreThis is a timely question because I'm working this mystery into the plot of my next novel: what happened to my grandmother's family? They were ordinary country farmers but there is something so odd about the way each of my great-aunts and uncles turned out that I cannot help but feel there was something bizarre in their upbringing. I've got a theory, and I must say, I'm glad they are all deceased so they'll never know what it is. It's not pretty.(less)

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Average rating: 3.81 · 176 ratings · 56 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Boss Is A Serial Killer 3.49 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	My Boss is A Dead Man 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	My Boss is a Wanted Woman ("Boss" Books) 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 2 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
	Possessed (Othernaturals #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	Bloodfather (Othernaturals #3) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015 — 4 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
	Lucid (Othernaturals #2) 3.73 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
	Orphans in Space: A Fearless Trek into Bad Sci-Fi Movies 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	Deck of Cards 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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
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“There’s a little angel on one of my shoulders saying that this is a wicked thing to do. Then there’s a little devil on my other shoulder, and she looks a lot like you.”
― Christina Harlin, Possessed

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“In my experience, people who want to keep their painful injuries are using them as a crutch. They’re hiding from something.”
― Christina Harlin, Possessed

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“If you mean to scare women away from you, that speech can’t possibly work. Those threats? If I weren’t trying to hire you I’d be taking my clothes off right now.”
― Christina Harlin, Possessed

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“Since I was a very young thing, others have told me that what I think, and the things I like, and the ideas I have, are bad. This has always been very puzzling to me. I understand in theory what the problem is, but in practice? I’m not compelled to change my ways.”
― Christina Harlin, Deck of Cards

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“She sensed her own power to enslave him. He would come willingly enough. No filthy atheistic beliefs she held were strong enough to douse what was crackling in the brief space between them. It would satisfy her on a hundred levels, to bring him to his knees.”
― Christina Harlin, Never Alone

tags: ghost-story, paranormal-romance, paranormal-thriller, romance, romance-fiction

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“I am a woman of very few layers, and most of them are selfish and mean. My parents tried to make me a good girl, but I just wasn’t having it.”
― Christina Harlin, Deck of Cards

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“Pastor Cooper might have called my trip to St. Louis a “journey to testify in the Lord’s name” but the Lord sure wasn’t very helpful.”
― Christina Harlin

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