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Renée Harrell

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Born

It's complicated, The United States

Website

http://www.marsneedswriters.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult

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Ira Levin, H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Elmore Leonard, Robert E. How ...more

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August 2010

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“Renée Harrell” is really two people. Our pen name is the semi-pseudonym of Renée and Harrell Turner, and we're a wife-and-husband writing team. Our first novel was a work-for-hire YA mystery and was written under a much more famous pseudonym. It did pretty well, too.

Under our own pseudonym, we've written a trio of e-books. "After Things Went Bad" and "Bill Shakespeare's Next Big Mistake" came out under our own Hunting Monsters Press logo, while "Wicked Games" can be purchased by the good people at Cobblestone Press.

In April, we published "Something Wicked", a young adult mystery, in both paperback and electronic editions. In September, we'll be publishing "The Atheist's Daughter", a supernatural thriller.

We're currently working on "The ...more

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Collaboration can be a challenge

Collaborations aren’t easy, as this year has reminded us. A Bablecube novella translation has been delayed. Our audiobook that was supposed to come out in September? The voice talent vanished, and we had to prevail upon the Gods of ACX to kill the contract. And there’s this 2026 thing we’re doing… but that’s for another day.

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	The Atheist's Daughter 3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Something Wicked 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	After Things Went Bad: Three Tales of the Near Future 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 2 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
	Aly's Luck 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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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	Cuando Las Cosas Fueron Mal by Renée Harrell (Goodreads Author), Ines Galiano (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	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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Renée Harrell said: " We really like most of Tim Burton's movie work and we really liked most of this book. Repetition becomes a small problem toward the end of the book (and at the beginning -- Johnny Depp does more than one pass at introducing the thing) but, if you're ...more "

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