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A Confession About My Books

There's something I've been meaning to tell you guys about, but I've been holding off till the last possible moment because well, I'm scared of what people might think.

I've revised the first part of my series, The One-Sided Coin, and am releasing a new edition.

While little of the main plot changes, many scenes have been rewritten to reflect my improved writing style. I learned a lot in-between wr

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	Writing Out Our Twenties: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Thursday Night Writes by Olivia J. Bennett (Goodreads Author), A.M. Tyson, Mary K. Gowdy (Goodreads Author) 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 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
	The One-Sided Coin (The One and the Other, #1) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2020	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 Damned Ones (The One and the Other, #1.5) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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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	Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Going? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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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