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Dee Doanes

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Born

Atlanta, The United States

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers

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Dee Doanes is the author of The Man With the Green Suitcase, her first fiction novel.

She has previously published short stories and poetry. She has a deep passion for writing and has been writing since the age of five.

Doanes has a background in copywriting, communications, and social media.

She’s active in several charities and conducts a youth poetry workshop for the Atlanta Writers Club Youth Writing Camp, and is the former co-chair of the Writing in the Schools Program for Georgia Writers.

Doanes lives in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoys spending time with her daughter and parents. Doanes’ mother encouraged her to read and to be creative while growing up. In her spare time she enjoys attending writing events and workshops, fitness training, ...more

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World Poetry

World Poetry Day

Today is World Poetry Day! Yah!! Most people don’t know that I’m a poet and that I actually got started my professional writing as a poetry. Later on I went on to publish short stories and start my own line of greeting cards.

Here is a poem I wrote, that’s in my paranormal, mystery fiction novel, “The Man With the Green Suitcase,” with the same title. I hope you enjoy

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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World

by Holley Bishop

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The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses (The Backyard Naturalist Series)

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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

by Edward Ball

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Quotes by Dee Doanes (?)

“When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must be done so I can exist.” The Man With the Green Suitcase”
― Dee Doanes

tags: fiction-novel

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“When asked why I write, I say it is why I breathe. How I make my heart beat with life. It must be done so I can exist.” The Man With the Green Suitcase”
― Dee Doanes

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“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

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“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.”
― Hugh Howey, The Unraveling

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“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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