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Sondra Sykes Meek

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Sondra Sykes Meek is originally from Florida, but has lived in several locations in the United States and abroad. She is a wife and mother of two, a retired Marine Corps master sergeant, and a Project Manager in the Defense Industry. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and has several stories in various stages of progress. She hopes to write full-time one day, but for now, she writes in the spare, quiet moments of her life.

Sondra wrote and published Model Marine to reveal the courage and sacrifices of Marines and their families. She wanted to offer people another kind of hero: someone who is not supernatural, immortal, or from the future. Although the events of this story are fiction, the setting and characters are influenced ...more

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Model Marine

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Starter Villain

by John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)

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⭐⭐⭐☆☆ I can appreciate why Rebecca is considered a classic. The writing is excellent, Manderley is an unforgettable setting, and the mystery becomes more compelling in the final third of the book. My biggest challenge was the characters. I found the na ...more
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