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Ian Thomas Healy

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Ian Thomas Healy is a prolific writer who dabbles in many different speculative genres. His superhero novel Deep Six: A Just Cause Novel was a Top 100 Semi-finalist in the 2008 Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award. He’s a seven-time participant and winner of National Novel Writing Month where he’s tackled such diverse subjects as sentient alien farts, competitive forklift racing, a religion-powered rabbit-themed superhero, cyberpunk mercenaries, cowboy elves, and an unlikely combination of vampires with minor league hockey. He is also the creator of the Writing Better Action Through Cinematic Techniques workshop, which helps writers to improve their action scenes.

His goal is to become as integral to the genre of superhero fiction as William
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Ian Thomas Healy Hi Sally! Thanks for asking. Mustang Sally's name came from the song, of course. I was creating superhero characters for a RPG game I was running, and…moreHi Sally! Thanks for asking. Mustang Sally's name came from the song, of course. I was creating superhero characters for a RPG game I was running, and the song came on the radio and I immediately thought that was a great name for a speedster. And the rest, as they say, is history.(less)
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Making the Cut by Ian Thomas Healy
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“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.” —Australian Aboriginal proverb”
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Owen Jones Hi Ian,

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