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Eric Penz

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Born

in Boise, ID, The United States

Website

http://www.EricPenz.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Thriller, Suspense, Science Fiction

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author: Dean Koontz

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November 2013

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Eric Penz is the author of the award-winning novel, Cryptid: The Lost Legacy of Lewis & Clark and the novella, Courage Between.

He earned his bachelor of science degree in environmental biology from Eastern Washington University in 1995. His postgraduate work was done at the University of Washington where he completed a two-year literary program in commercial fiction. He is also an alumni of The Film School. In 2012 he sold his insurance agency to begin a financial advisor practice and focus on his writing. He and his family live in the great Pacific Northwest where he can cycle, mountain climb, and ski all in the same day.

He is currently at work on a short film version of Cryptid and a new trilogy, Secret Combinations.

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Eric Penz's Blog

A Weekend with My Muse

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When is the last time you spent a weekend with your muse?

I've written before about identifying where a writer's muse lives. For many authors, like myself, their muse is tied to a physical location(s). In order for them to really slip into that mental space where the words just flow they need to first slip into a physical space which inspires them.

For me, that physical space i