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I am a fiction writer living in the Carolinas.

Writing is a passion of mine, and I'll never stop. I'm always striving to tell another story that speaks to me in new and interesting ways, and my milieu seems to have becomes historical fiction with a fantasy bent.

I love the feeling of being dropped into a lived-in world with its own rules and following a character who has to navigate them. That can be the far flung future like a Gene Wolfe novel or the distant, forgotten past like a Conan adventure from Robert E. Howard. That can even be a biography of a real man long since dead like James Madison. In fact, it was through the reading of Irving Brant's six-volume biography of Madison that I discovered The Battle of Lake Erie, the small corner o ...more

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	The Battle of Lake Erie: One Young American's Adventure in the War of 1812 4.63 avg rating — 8 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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Adapted from a stage musical based on the long-running comic strip, John Huston’s Annie is a light, musical affair with a winning heart, a curious change to the source material, and a loose structure betraying its wide-ranging origins. At least the songs have some kick and the physical production is worthwhile, helped in no small part by a winning central performance and a major supporting perform

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The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun, #5)

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