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Tamatha Cain

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Tamatha Cain is a former musician and bandleader. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Florida with a degree in English. Her work has appeared in national and international publications. Awards include: 2022 Florida Book Award, 2020 Royal Palm Literary Award, and grand prize in The Experience Poetry Competition. She writes reviews for Southern Literary Review, and is a member of Women's Fiction Writers Association, Women Writing the West, WFWA Historical Fiction Affinity Group, and Florida Writers Association. She is a wife and mother of three and lives in a hundred-year-old bungalow in North Florida, in close proximity to the historic locations found in her novel Song of the Chimney Sweep. ...more

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	Only Oona 4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2023 — 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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Only Oona Giveaway

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The winners of the Only Oona paperback giveaway should be on the lookout for their prizes in the mail-including a matching signed bookplate!

If Only Oona is still on your TBR, please consider pre-ordering wherever you buy books. Amazon seems to be having an issue with listing the paperback, but it is available everywhere else, including signed copies on sale through the publisher Orange Read more of this blog post »

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The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

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