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C.L. Walters

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in Oregon, The United States
November 17

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As a kid, CL Walters’s world revolved around two things: stories and make believe. She’s built a real life around those two passions as a teacher of stories and a writer of make believe.
From a small town in Oregon, she attended college in a smaller town in Oregon majoring in English and adding experiences to fill her creative reservoir. She married her college sweetheart and moved to Hawaiʻi where she now lives. The rich diversity and cultural complexity of Hawaiʻi has added to the tapestry of her creative journey.

In 2020, she started Mixed Plate Press —a publishing imprint—with her husband and has grown it into a thriving business as a published author, writing coach, ghostwriter, editor, and teacher.

She says she reads and writes everyday
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C.L. Walters Hi there! A great question (And I'm sorry I'm only seeing it now). All of the books occur in the same universe. The Stories Stars Tell is a stand alon…moreHi there! A great question (And I'm sorry I'm only seeing it now). All of the books occur in the same universe. The Stories Stars Tell is a stand alone (and was written first), but the main character from In the Echo of this Ghost Town is in The Stories Stars Tell as a secondary character (and is a jerk). You can read them both on their own without the other, but for additional perspective starting with The Stories Stars Tell will make you hate the main character of In the Echo of this Ghost Town worse. :) When the Echo Answers is a companion to In the Echo of this Ghost Town (the female character's perspective of the same story) so I would suggest reading it last.(less)
C.L. Walters I live in Hawaiʻi and I have always thought some of the superstitions of the locals would make for awesome stories. For example: don't sweep the doorw…moreI live in Hawaiʻi and I have always thought some of the superstitions of the locals would make for awesome stories. For example: don't sweep the doorway at night. There's a tale of a aswang (a vampire in Filipino culture) that is said to roam the village near where I live, or there's a man-dog werewolf a few valleys over. So many ideas that are both terrifying and creatively intriguing.(less)
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I had a really hard time getting into this book initially. The first chapter was slow and repetitive. The more I sat with it, however, I recognized that I was triggered by my own religious trauma having been raised evangelical. The premise of the sto ...more
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DNFed this book at 59 pages. While inventive, I struggle to connect to anything. It was abstract and tracking the narrative was nebulous. I enjoyed the letters… either a not for me or a not for me right now.
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Bernard M. Baruch
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ernest Hemingway
“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway
“But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast




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