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Ned Hayes
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in Taipei, China
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The Eagle Tree
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2016
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12 editions
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Sinful Folk
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2013
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10 editions
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Coeur d'Alene Waters
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2013
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6 editions
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Holy Trinity: An Eagle Tree Story
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Fire (Sinful Folk #1)
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Tree / Monastery (Sinful Folk #2-3)
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2014
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Child / Knot (Sinful Folk #4-5)
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2014
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Ring (Sinful Folk #6)
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2014
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Glossolalia: Speaking in Tongues
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2009
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2 editions
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Sinful Folk [Excerpt for Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest]
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Halloween: Twelve Terrifying Two Sentence Horror Stories
I found a thread on Reddit that asked this question: “What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences?” I posted the best ones I found, as well as one more scary tale I created on my own. See if you can figure out which one is mine! With Halloween right around the corner, these two-sentence terrors fit the month perfectly!
Happy Halloween!
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Read more of this blog post »“My daughter won’t
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“I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.”
― Sinful Folk
― Sinful Folk
“Trees do not require you to make certain sounds to be understood. They are simply present and ready for you to climb at any time. Trees are easier.”
― The Eagle Tree
― The Eagle Tree
“I remember the fire, it burns bright, always around me. I close my eyes, and tears stream out. The tides of the past seize me, bear me out to sea.”
― Sinful Folk
― Sinful Folk
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| 2026 Reading Chal...: Clare's Cozy Corner 2016 | 29 | 106 | Dec 21, 2015 05:24PM | |
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| All About Books: December 2016 - What will you be reading? | 40 | 47 | Dec 30, 2016 08:27AM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: Cassandra | 150 books in 2016 | 233 | 335 | Dec 31, 2016 05:13PM | |
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| 2026 Reading Chal...: From Fiction to Reality Challenge - 2016 | 324 | 972 | Feb 28, 2017 05:42PM |
“It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves.
There was motion below her. There were people on the shelves.
They clung to the edges of the cases and moved across them in expert scuttles. They wore ropes and hooks and carried picks on which they sometimes hung. Dangling from straps they carried notebooks, pens, magnifying glasses, ink pads, and stamps.
The men and women took books from the shelves as they went, checked their details, leaning against their ropes, replaced them, pulled out little pads and made notes, sometimes carried the books with them to another place and reshelved it there.
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I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. 'Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.”
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There was motion below her. There were people on the shelves.
They clung to the edges of the cases and moved across them in expert scuttles. They wore ropes and hooks and carried picks on which they sometimes hung. Dangling from straps they carried notebooks, pens, magnifying glasses, ink pads, and stamps.
The men and women took books from the shelves as they went, checked their details, leaning against their ropes, replaced them, pulled out little pads and made notes, sometimes carried the books with them to another place and reshelved it there.
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I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. 'Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.”
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“It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.”
― The Scar
― The Scar
“The many mysteries boil down to three. There is the kind that can be solved: who planted the bomb? Will the travellers reach their destination? What is Mother's childhood secret? There is the supernatural: dark metaphysical forces, never to be fully exposed, yet hinting of themselves in a way that suggests the author could reveal more if he chose, and might do, in his next book. And there are the insoluble mysteries: what lies beyond life, what beauty is for, why the innocent suffer and the guilty prosper, what goes on in the heads of other people, why life keeps fucking us over just when we're doing all right -- these are the mysteries the books dealing with them can't solve, and it is for this reason that the best of these books are the ones we keep rereading.”
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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Thanks for accepting my friend request, Ned.
Savannah wrote: "Ned, thank you for the friendship."Thanks for connecting on GoodReads!
Thanks for the friend request!Melissa
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Thanks to Connie Davis for her review of "Sinful Folk An absolute "Must Read"!
I read it without stopping as soon as I got it loaded on my Kindle! What a terrific read, and this from a person who is not a fan of historical fiction, mainly because it often has so many inaccuracies. For me, too, the measure of a compelling read is that I continue to think about it long after I have closed the book, and in this case, I have thought of it often.
There were parts where I thought if one more brutal thing happened to Miriam/Mear I couldn't bear it. To accept the plausibility of her treatment (and that of others like the character Nell), I had to remind myself of how harsh life was then, how brutal. I had to remind myself of the prevailing ignorance of people, how filled with superstition many were, and what a truly perilous time it was.
I loved it all, and loved spending my time in that strange and distant era, and got a wonderful education while being thoroughly entertained. Can't ask for more than that! -- Connie Davis ( Review posted at https://www.facebook.com/SinfulFolk )
Hello Ned, it is a pleasure to meet you.
Hope wrote: "Hey Ned,Thanks for the friend request. Washington is favorite place in the world. Go you for living there! Looking forward to hearing more about the books you love...or not so much ;)"
Thanks, Hope. Appreciate your thoughts on WA. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the early chapters of Sinful Folk. Thanks much!
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Hey Ned,Thanks for the friend request. Washington is favorite place in the world. Go you for living there! Looking forward to hearing more about the books you love...or not so much ;)
The first two chapters of my forthcoming novel SINFUL FOLK are now available as an EXCERPT on GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
The entire book will be available soon.
Happy reading! -- Ned Hayes
p.s. your feedback, reviews, and thoughts to the author are always welcome -- I look forward to hearing from you!
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Sarah wrote: "Hi Ned thank you for the friend request! C="Thanks, Sarah -- I look forward to reading your reviews!
Hi Ned, thanks for the friend invite! I'm looking forward to chatting with you!
Holly wrote: "Hi Ned. I noticed you've been adding books at a rapid rate. Are you in the process of cataloging your home library?"Precisely!! I have a couple of days off in between jobs, so I'm using the time to catch up on books, writing, and book cataloguing. Fun! (Also, I have a new blog, so I'm adding my GoodReads list there, and figured I should have it updated -- http://nedhayes.com ) Hope you are doing well. All the best to you, -- Ned.