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Elise Volkman

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Ebooks

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Elise writes fantasy for fun, reads fantasy for research, and occasionally fantasizes about how many friends she’d have if she got out of the house more. Roots of Blood is her debut novel in the Nymph Keepers trilogy. She graduated from The Writer’s Studio Online at Simon Fraser University, where she also spent two years as a TA for the inimitable Eileen Cook. When she’s not writing, she works as a freelance editor and co-hosts The Tea Grannies Writing Podcast. She lives in British Columbia, Canada with her husband and their eight computers. ...more

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	Roots of Blood (The Nymph Keepers, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 31 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
	Heart of the Forest (The Nymph Keepers #2) 4.63 avg rating — 16 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
	Queen of the Nymphs (The Nymph Keepers, #3) 4.90 avg rating — 10 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
	Two Bad Bunnies by Sandy Reid, Lindsay Ford (Illustrator), Kyla Girling liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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 Travelling Gum by Holly Talbot, Holly Talbot, Elise Volkman (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Elise Volkman has read Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fantasy	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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“Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.”
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“Any assemblage comprising human beings, any family, any party, any tribe, any nation, will bind itself together not by what it shares but ultimately by what it fears, which is often so much greater. Perhaps it abhors the outsider as camouflage for its own alarms; dreading what it would do to itself were the binding to fall asunder.”
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