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Gina M. Engman

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Fantasy, Light Fantasy, Fiction

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Gina M. Engman is a newly self-published indie author who enjoys a classic novel, adventure stories, sci-fi, children’s books, coffee, and a good laugh. Her favorite book of all time is "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland."

Her debut novel is the portal fantasy "The Mark of the Artist," and she plans to dust off some other stories she’s had in a drawer. In her spare time she’s a marketing communications writer.

Gina lives in Northern California with her husband and two children. ...more

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Sidetracked: November Catch Up

Hello! It’s been a little while hasn’t it? How about we catch up? Garden Update The tomatoes are long composted, and the winter garden is in! Now we wait for the broccoli, carrots, and cauliflower to do their thing. As long as the slugs mind their business and don’t mess things up! Ha. We also […]

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The Cricket on the Hearth and Other Christmas Stories

by Charles Dickens

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Read this Indie Author's book for a great fairy tale retelling and a magical modern day feel. This was an interesting new take on the story of The Little Mermaid, with a kind of Romeo and Juliet spin. And it is set in modern times too, which I didn't ...more
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Well geeze, that was heartbreaking.!!! Spoilers!! If you have a kid who wears their heart on their sleeve, or you do, just skip this book. It will tear your heart out, show it to you, try to stuff it back in, and then brush of its hands and walk awa ...more
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Spellbinding and sorrow Alma's Story takes you on a journey into a realm of death and life, sorrow and hope. Not yet having read the main book, The Ghost Merchant, I didn't know the world built here, but had no trouble as the author brought this novel ...more
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“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

tags: writing-life

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“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
― Audrey Hepburn

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“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

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“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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