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Cindy Lynn Speer

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Born

in Monogahela, The United States

September 23

Website

http://www.apenandfire.com

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers, Romance

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Neil Gaiman, Barbara Hambly, Jennifer Roberson, Terry Pratchett, Berna ...more

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March 2008

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Cindy Lynn Speer is the author of several short stories, book reviews, books and interviews.

And she finds talking in the third person boring, so...

Hello! Let's see, what else is interesting? I write for many reasons...to make people happy, to explore further the worlds in my head (day dreaming can be sloppy...and jumpy. One moment, you're at a stop light, day dreaming about riding dragons, the next moment you're at work, pretending that you're a CSI specializing in filing systems. Not a very disciplined way of seeing stories through to the end.) and to just celebrate the joy of words.

My library contains books on ships, chocolate, swords, murder mysteries, folk lore, myth, fantasy and all sorts of things. I am a jackdaw. I love to read abou ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 956 ratings · 213 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Chocolatier's Wife 3.86 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2008 — 8 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
	Wishes and Sorrows 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The Chocolatier's Ghost 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	The Chocolatier's Journal 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	A Necklace of Rubies 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015	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
	Blue Moon 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 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 Key To All Things 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings	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
	Stereo Opticon: Fairy Tales in Split Vision by Cindy Lynn Speer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heather S. Ingemar (Goodreads Author), Imogen Howson (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Unbalanced 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	But Can You Let Him Go? 4.50 avg rating — 6 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

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Continuing the journey – England Installment 3: Sleeping Happy

So. Transportation is out of the way. But where do you lay your lovely head?

For mum and I, hotels are usually the cheapest and most convenient we can find because we cannot stand camping another night in a row, or because if we skip camping and drive well after dark, we can position ourselves to launch to our next cool thing to do.

The UK has some of the coolest looking hotels.

We decided to real

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“Do you know the myth, that one should never eat the food of faery, or be forever trapped. That is true, in its way. To eat or drink of the things of faery is to taste of something so uncommon, so blessed and lovely, that one is forever spoiled. Mortals who taste us either stay with us forever, or spend their lives wishing for what they'd experienced. They search for the taste, the feeling, the joy, but find them not in human things. Some are fortunate enough to find one of us who will take them into service, but most of them pine away, unable to enjoy what they have for the longing of what they do not.”
― Cindy Lynn Speer, Once Upon a Curse

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“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Bernard Cornwall

tags: on-writing, readers-and-writers, writing, writing-craft

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“She strode the earth clad in the invisible armor of their virtual companionship.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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“Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.”
― John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

tags: inspiration, mastery, power

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