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Amber’s 2020 Year in Books
Take a look at Amber’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Amber Foxx
Goodreads Author
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in Santa Fe, NM, The United States
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Walker Percy, James D. Doss, Alexander McCall Smith, Isabelle Allende,
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December 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/amberfoxx
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The Calling (Mae Martin Mysteries #1)
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2013
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10 editions
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Bearing
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The Outlaw Women
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2014
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2 editions
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Shaman's Blues (Mae Martin Mysteries #2)
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2014
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6 editions
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Death Omen (Mae Martin Mysteries #6)
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Ghost Sickness (Mae Martin Mysteries #5)
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2016
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4 editions
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Snake Face (Mae Martin Mysteries #3)
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2014
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8 editions
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Soul Loss (Mae Martin Mysteries #4)
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2015
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4 editions
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Shadow Family (Mae Martin Mysteries #7)
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Gifts and Thefts
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2021
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2 editions
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Where did that character come from?
I sometimes feel as if characters come out of nowhere, fully formed, in search of an author. A few positive, likeable characters have been inspired by real people, but even then, I make changes so I’m not actually putting person X in a book.
Antagonist characters are usually inspired by one specific trait or behavior I notice in an individual. I use that trait as a root from which to grow a charact
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| I was delighted to discover yet another mystery novella with no murder. Not that I don’t enjoy the ones with murders, but there are so many varieties of crime, why not investigate something else for change? And this one is a humorous cozy without cut ...more | |
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| James M. Jackson proves you can tell a compelling crime story without death or violence. In this novella, Seamus McCree is on vacation with his eighty-something mother and his six-year-old granddaughter. He hopes to buy a beach condo that can be a va ...more | |
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| This intriguing novella is the perfect prologue to The First Lie, the first full-length novel in the Selkie Moon series. In Planting Pearls, the reader meets Selkie when she’s taken her first daring steps to reclaim her life from a controlling, psych ...more | |
“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
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“I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
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“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
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Hi Amber! Thanks so much for accepting! I'm looking forward to chatting books :-)
Hi Amber,Thanks for sending a Goodreads friend request to this fellow mystery author!
