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Gregory Amato

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Gregory Amato made a career of selling his quill as a mercenary writer for many years. He wrote true and important things for newspapers, magazines, academia, and, for over a decade, intelligence analysis for the FBI.

Now, he writes fantasy stories based on the myths and sagas of the vikings. His fiction is often influenced by tales lost to time, usually full of high adventure, and always the sort that makes readers late to dinner.

Outside his time spent spinning yarns about vikings and wizards, he teaches Judo, brews beer, and plays DnD when he gets the chance.

Gregory lives happily with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

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Live sales events are anxiety-producing, risky, and draining on time and energy. I like doing them a lot.

That may seem like a strange thing given how much they cost me in time and energy. But live events give me a chance to meet readers and chat with them in person. Some readers tell me they want to write, or are writing. I want to encourage that, especially with young writers.

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Goodreads does not appear to take my reports of "This is a fake account" seriously until I notify the author being impersonated and they contact Goodreads themselves.

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“The road to Asgard is paved with head injuries.”
Gregory Amato, Burden to Bear

“The gods do not help you forget things. That is what alcohol is for, and why it is so much more important than faith.”
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“Or less charitably, you could call the Rus a bunch of miserable Swedes who went too far east and got even more miserable than they were before.”
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“I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em.”
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
Robert E. Howard

“Did you deem yourself strong because you were able to twist the heads off civilised folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong.”
Robert E. Howard, Man-Eaters of Zamboula

“So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.”
Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

“Solomon Kane stood forth alone,
grim man of a somber race:
"Worthy of death he well may be,
but the court ye held was a mockery,
"Ye hid your spite in a travesty
where Justice hid her face.

"More of the man had ye been,
on deck your sword to cleanly draw
"Inforthright fury from its sheath,
and openly cleave him to the teeth --
"Rather than slink and hide beneath
a hollow word of Law.”
Robert E. Howard, The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

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