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Katje van Loon

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in Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry, Gay and Lesbian

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Katje van Loon was raised surrounded by deep forests, wild wolves, witches, and books, with a warrior woman single mother to learn from. According to that mother, Katje's first poem was created when she was barely a toddler, and writing has been a huge part of her life since childhood.

It was probably only natural that Katje would grow up to write books about witches, wolves, and warrior women, as those things formed the basis of her formative years. Now if only she could find a magic spell to make writing go a bit faster for her....

Currently Katje is a wild witch trapped in the big city. Her dream is to drag her spouse off to a town small enough that everyone knows their names, and where the woods are so close she only needs take one half-s ...more

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	Bellica (The Third Age, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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
	Stranger Skies (The Borderlands Saga, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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
	glasstown 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 3 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
	The Jade Star of Athering (The Third Age, #2) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	Rewolfing the Soul: micropoems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 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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Note: this post is inspired by certain current events. I haven’t read the Vulture article yet. I plan to, when I have the mental fortitude to get through it. I do know enough from context, and have known about the allegations since last year. At any rate, this post is not about them even though the article and discourse around it is what has inspired me to write this post. And I do not get into

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The A-Zs of Worldbuilding: Building a Fictional World From Scratch (The A-Zs of Worldbuilding, #1)

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Writing Your Story's Theme: The Writer's Guide to Plotting Stories That Matter (Helping Writers Become Authors Book 11)

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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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“though others should have liked to deny me.”
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“The boy shook his head, looking more scared now Helene's smile was gone. "No, Ma'am. I didn't think to ask," he said, his voice barely above a whisper. Helene forced a smile back on her face and patted his shoulder. "We all make mistakes. Go on to your duties; I'll look in on Miranda.”
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“We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

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“You have to be careful what seeds you sow on dirt where your roots have not yet touched the bedrock.”
― Kaimana Wolff, La Chiripa

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“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone

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“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. ”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar

tags: inspirational

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“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

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