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Communication and website designer by day, writer, corsetiere, horn player, and maker of things by night. Minki currently lives in Cape Town where she spends most of her time reading anything she can get her hands on and trying to keep plants alive. She enjoys yoga and miscellaneous musings over a good cup of tea.

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Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son, #1)

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“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
― Sylvia Plath

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“You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."

"What do you find on the other side? When you go on?"

She shrugged. "Your life again. What else?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

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