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Cindy Burkart Maynard

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Cindy Burkart Maynard is passionate for history and the natural world. Her characters come to life showing the reader what it was like to live in another time and place. She has published four historical fiction novels and is two nonfiction works about the Colorado Plateau and the desert southwest.

https://www.cindyburkartmaynard.com/


Winner:
Colorado Authors League award for Western literature
WILLA Finalist Award for soft cover fiction.
Marie M. Irvine award for Literary Excellence
Chanticleer National Book Award
Top Shelf Book award
Reader's Favorite Five Star Award


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Cindy Burkart Maynard I usually have a few project ideas in the works - a large book project and simple history/natural history articles for a local magazine. Reverting to …moreI usually have a few project ideas in the works - a large book project and simple history/natural history articles for a local magazine. Reverting to writing something non-fiction and simple generally gets the juices flowing. Also, I love doing the research. If I lose my way, I'll bury myself in research and reading. That will usually suggest directions my story might go.(less)
Cindy Burkart Maynard The selfish answer is that it gives me a great deal of satisfaction to immerse myself in a meaty project and just forget about the rest of this insane…moreThe selfish answer is that it gives me a great deal of satisfaction to immerse myself in a meaty project and just forget about the rest of this insane world.(less)
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Now I begin. For almost a year, I have been drawn to the Camino de Santiago de Compostela like iron filings to a magnet. I never understood why. When I try to explain this strange obsession to myself, I find no reasonable explanation. Instead a list “virtues” bubbles up to the surface. These are my intentions in walking the Camino.Simplicity: All I truly need can be reduced to a very few items wei Read more of this blog post »
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