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Dana Leipold

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Dana Leipold loves the written word. Her award-winning debut novel, Burnt Edges, delves into the dark reaches of abuse and incest while depicting the resilience of one young girl. She also self-published two books, Stupid Poetry: The Ultimate Collection of Sublime and Ridiculous Poems and The Power of Writing Well: Write Well. Change the World. She helped found, Kōsa Press, an independent publishing label specializing in shared universe anthologies and is a member of the Association of Independent Authors. She practices yoga, loves funny cat videos, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children.

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Like millions of people who watched Oprah give her acceptance speech at the 2018 Golden Globes, I was riveted.

What’s ironic is the feminine uprising occurring in Hollywood and other places in society while one of the worst chauvinists is “running” the United States of America. Of course, I use the term “running” loosely because he’s barely holding things together via his juvenile tweets in respons

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	Burnt Edges 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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
	Interspecies, Volume 1 (The Inlari Sagas) by Ally Bishop (Goodreads Author) (Editor), M.J. Kelley (Goodreads Author), Woelf Dietrich (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Stupid Poetry: The Ultimate Collection of Sublime and Ridiculous Poems 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Stupid Poetry, Vol. 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 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
	The Power of Writing Well: Write Well. Change the World. 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	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
	Stupid Poetry - Volume 2, NEW AND IMPROVED STUPIDITY! 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Armistice (The Inlari Sagas) by M.J. Kelley (Goodreads Author), Woelf Dietrich (Goodreads Author), Dana Leipold (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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
	Dare to Imagine: 18 Principles for Finding Peace, Happiness, and True Success: A (Golden Book Series 1) by Blake Sinclair, Dana Leipold (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Dare to Imagine: 18 Principles for Finding Peace, Happiness, and True Success: A True Story of Hope and Love, Divinely Inspired. by Ronald Lew, Dana Leipold (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Airi Beltran (Illustrations) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	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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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

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“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

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“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

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