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J.E. Mac

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J.E. Mac worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Now, he bludgeons his soul onto the page and sells it off pennies at a time.

Growing up in Southern California, people often asked him where he was from. Uh, Southern California. His answer was met with a look of disappointment. "Oh..." Apparently, no one is from Southern California.

In light of that response, he wanted to concoct a biography about how he was a lonesome hermit living in the wilderness of Alaska. His only company was a stiff glass of whisky, his hunting dog Conan, and a great white bear that was stalking him. (That's not a metaphor. Polar bears, man! Polar bears!) He also wanted to say he was a New York Times Bestselling author. But that's a pipe dream. Besides, he wanted to be
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Enjoyable plot and world building.

But I am floored at how little it explored its own premise. It has a great hook, and sets it up in chapter 1!

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“A Dick and Jane story written in blood and battered bone.

See Spot.

See Spot run.

See Spot run from a gaping chest wound.

Run Spot run.

See Detective smear Spot into a baggy for DNA testing.”
J.E. Mac, Damaged Good

“No wonder you're depressed. You haven't fully accepted the use of controlled violence for the good of the community.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Because the longer you go on the worse it gets. And now, instead of preventing me from having effective dreams, you're going to start having them yourself. I don't like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don't want to live in yours.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Are you . . . a policeman?"
"No. They'll be along shortly, I expect. Public suicide's a felony."
". . . I'm sorry.”
James Tiptree Jr.

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“Your mother must have been disappointed when the abortion only killed your conscience.”
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