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Mark Todd

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Todd is a novelist and poet who's read and performed his work across ihe West, on the East Coast, and in Berlin, Germany.

Author of two books of poetry, Wire Song, Conundrum Press, 2001, and Tamped, But Loose Enough to Breathe, Ghost Road Press, 2008.

Co-author (with wife, Kym O'Connell-Todd) of The Silverville Saga Series, including Little Greed Men, All Plucked Up, and The Magicke Outhouse, all from Raspberry Creek Books.

His science fiction novel, Strange Attractors, was released in October, 2012.

His latest work, also co-authored with Kym, is Wild West Ghosts, a nonfiction book on haunted hotels in Colorado.

He and Kym live near Gunnison, Colorado, with four indoor cats, three sometimes indoor dogs, and six horses who definitely have to l

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Mark Todd Writer's block is fundamentally a fear of failure. I've always loved Natalie Goldberg's advice from WRITING DOWN THE BONES on this score: Give yoursel…moreWriter's block is fundamentally a fear of failure. I've always loved Natalie Goldberg's advice from WRITING DOWN THE BONES on this score: Give yourself permission to fail sometimes. Writing is drafting and revising -- developing characters, redirecting plots, rearranging words and then chsnging or adding new ones. Don't put so much pressure on yourself. Let ideas and stories unfold and listen to the words.(less)
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My Slaveholding Ancestors, Pt 2

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This post is the second in a two-part series describing my slaveholding ancestors and their slaves. Click here for Part One, which highlights selective slave-owner ancestors, their lives, and an overview of their slave holdings.

In this post, I enumerate below all the names, dates, and locations of the owners and their known slaves.

So far, I've identified thirty-three s

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