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Katrina Archer

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Katrina Archer is the author of dark fantasy The Tree of Souls, YA fantasy Untalented, and nature photography book Shorescapes of Southern British Columbia. A former engineer, she lives on her sailboat in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Katrina has worked in aerospace, video games, and film, and has been known to copy edit for fun.

Katrina’s work was a 2016 Library Journal Indie Ebook Awards Honorable Mention. She is an alumnus of the Viable Paradise and Paradise Lost writing workshops, and a member of Codex Writers and SF Canada.

She can operate almost any vehicle that can’t fly, doesn’t believe in life without books or chocolate, and was once owned by a cat more famous in Germany than she is.

Connect with her online at www.katrinaarcher.com.
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Katrina Archer The idea for the plot came about from a career suggestion my boss at the time made to me, which was that I should consider specializing more in my tec…moreThe idea for the plot came about from a career suggestion my boss at the time made to me, which was that I should consider specializing more in my technical field. I'm a bit of a dabbler myself, and instinctively rebelled at this idea. If I had to stick to one topic, I'd likely wither.
Then I wondered: what would happen if you took the idea of specialization within a society to the extreme, where dabblers were looked down upon and devalued, and what would life be like for someone without a specialty?
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Untalented

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“Join us or die.” Does that sound like an exaggeration of social media peer pressure? Anyone who dares tease out nuance in an online argument does so at their own peril. 

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