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Dog Star Books welcomes K.W. Taylor! K.W. is the author of the Sam Brody urban fantasy series, about a dragonslaying disc jockey (<i>The Red Eye</i> and <i>The House on Concordia Drive</i>, both published by Alliteration Ink). She has short stories in the anthologies <i>The Grotesquerie </i>(Mocha Memoirs Press, 2014), <i>100 Worlds</i> (Dreamscape Press, 2013), <i>Sidekicks! </i>(Alliteration Ink, 2013), <i>Touched by Darkness</i> (Etopia Press, 2012), and <i>Once Bitten, Never Die</i> (Wicked East Press, 2011), as well as many print and electronic magazines. Taylor holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. She teaches college English and Women’s Studies in Ohio, where she lives in a restored nineteenth-century home with her husband and the world’s most rambunctious kitten. <i>The Curiosity Killers</i> is her first science fiction novel. She blogs at <a href="http://www.kwtaylorwriter.com/">www.kwtaylorwriter.com</a> and is hard at work on <i>The Girl with Mechanical Wings</i>, the second volume of the Jonson’s Exotic Travel series.<br />
<b><br />Tell us about your first Dog Star release!</b><br />
Dog Star is publishing my novel <i>The Curiosity Killers</i> this spring. It’s my first foray into science fiction, having done largely urban fantasy and horror up to this point. <i>The Curiosity Killers</i> is a time travel novel about a historian and a physicist who run a travel agency that, instead of sending people to exotic places, sends them back in time instead. There are a lot of classic historical unsolved mysteries at the heart of the book, most prominently Jack the Ripper, the Mothman, and the lost colony of Roanoke, and it features Wilbur Wright as a supporting character.<br />
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<b>Who and what were your influences for this book?</b><br />
I’ve always loved time travel fiction, both in literature and in media. While some people of my generation think of the original<i> Star Wars </i>trilogy as their SF cultural touchstone, mine is the <i>Back to the Future </i>trilogy. I also grew up watching <i>Unsolved Mysteries </i>and was fascinated with the idea that being able to time travel to the scene of an unsolved crime or disappearance or other mysterious happening and simple observation would unravel all these loose threads of history. While this obviously isn’t literally possible, we can still postulate and observe and draw interesting conclusions, or simply make up our own theories. I also live in Dayton, the hometown of the Wright brothers, and the original idea for the book was a sort of <i>League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</i> concept with both brothers inventing time travel and then going on adventures together. As I developed the storyline, though, I grew more interested in linking the past and the present and Orville’s role diminished in the editing process. Twenty-second century historian Ben Jonson is the protagonist, as I wanted to explore someone in an academic field similar to my own who struggles between scholarship for its own sake and applying that scholarship to something more hands-on. For me, that struggle is between literary analysis and the performative act of creative writing, while for Ben it’s the struggle between being an observer of historical events and actively time traveling to participate in or change them.<br />
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<b>Describe your writing process, especially for this manuscript. </b><br />
I wrote this book as my thesis project for my MFA degree, though one chapter near the middle began life as a standalone short story in 2011. Because it was originally an academic project, the process of writing and revision took a lot longer than for other works of mine; my 2014 novelette <i>The House on Concordia Drive</i>, for instance, went from first draft to revision to publication in a little over a year, whereas <i>The Curiosity Killers</i> was obviously more ambitious in so many ways. I also had to do a ton of historical research, especially on the Wrights and on all the various mysteries I cover. I can tell you way more than you ever wanted to know about the D.B. Cooper hijacking or about the Black Dahlia, because even if I didn’t deal with a particular mystery more than in passing, I still read a ton to prepare. I don’t usually need to do quite so much research on a more contemporary piece. So the writing process was generally done in fits and starts and binge sessions a few times a month in between tons and tons of research reading. I also took the entire manuscript apart in several ways; due to the non-linear nature of telling a time travel story, I had to reduce my reliance on flashbacks so as not to confuse the reader. I usually love flashbacks and for a more straightforward piece without a lot of literal time hopping, using them sparingly is not often a problem. Here, I was color coding and shifting and moving scenes and entire sections of the book around even up to a few weeks before submitting my final manuscript. One of my thesis advisors, the SF author Heidi Ruby Miller, was so helpful in guiding me through the unique structural challenges of writing the time travel subgenre!<br />
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<b>Why sci-fi/speculative fiction?</b><br />
Instead of calling myself a “SF author” or a “horror author” or what have you, I’ve always just wanted to call myself a “speculative fiction” author. No matter what the specific genre, any work that starts out with posing the question “what if…” is something I want to read and, by extension, write. I think, too, that science fiction is uniquely useful as a genre through which an author can postulate ideas about sociological issues, political issues, and issues surrounding topics that are difficult to talk about, like race and gender.<i> The Curiosity Killers </i>can, I think, be read as a fairly straightforward adventure novel, with fun elements sprinkled in that tie it to larger SF traditions as well as a variety of subgenres (steampunk, dystopian fiction, and even science fiction romance), but I certainly think readers can take more from it, if they want. <br />
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<b>What do you hope readers will take from this book?</b><br />
I hope readers will see the book as a thrill ride with some layers to it. It’s fun for people who like neo-Victoriana, it’s fun for people who like aliens and weird creatures, and it’s fun for people who like a bit of thriller mixed in with their SF. But the other layers, which have varying levels of subtlety, deal with some difficult subjects as well. The setting for most of the action is a post-war, divided nation, with one country’s leader holding disturbing opinions about race, gender, and violence. I also handle the Jack the Ripper plot a lot differently than most works of either fiction or non-fiction, unflinchingly reminding the reader of the suffering of the victims, who were not Sherlock Holmes-esque plot devices in a cozy mystery but were real, flesh and blood women victimized by someone who clearly hated them for their gender. I think writing about these themes in the confines of mainstream, realistic fiction without a speculative bent could be hard to swallow or extremely painful, or even fail to be so inclusive in some ways, but speculative fiction can allow the writer to use allegory to make subjects like these more applicable to a wider range of social problems.<br />
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<b>Can you leave us with a teaser?</b><br />
A young man stood in the now-open doorway, studying her. He was of South-Asian descent and had wild dark hair and thick eyebrows. His velvet blazer looked soft to the touch but also somewhat frayed around the hems. His voice was deep, deeper than Violet imagined someone with his boyish looks would have. <br />
Violet blinked. “Was I thinking out loud?” she asked the man as she stood up.<br />
He smiled and nodded. “You wonder how we actually do the time travel thing, hmm?” He strode across the room and stretched a hand out to her. “I’m Jonson, Ben Jonson.”<br />
Violet shook his hand. “You own this?” she asked.<br />
“I own the building and the business,” he replied. “But my partner owns the tech.”<br />
“Tech,” Violet said. “So . . . ”<br />
“Yes. It’s true. My partner owns and operates a time machine.”<br />
“You think so, but I’m a rational person, Mister Jonson. I have a really hard time believing that.”<br />
“It’s easier to think I’m crazy?” Ben asked. “Go ahead. Sometimes I think I am, but I know too much.”<br />
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<b>Connect with K.W. on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/kwtaylorwriter">@kwtaylorwriter</a> and attend her <a href="http://www.broadkillresort.com/workshops-events/">Fiction with Limits workshop</a> at the Broadkill Resort from April 15th to April 18th!</b></div>
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Nice review from <b><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-935738-79-4#path/978-1-935738-79-4">Publisher's Weekly</a></b> for <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Starrie-Ambasadora-Heidi-Ruby-Miller-ebook/dp/B01CPQZH0O/ref=as_li_tf_cw?&linkCode=waf&tag=heirubmil-20">Starrie (From the World of Ambasadora)</a></b> by <b><a href="http://www.heidirubymiller.com">Heidi Ruby Miller</a></b>! Though it is a standalone novel, this book takes place chronologically right after <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Greenshift-From-World-Ambasadora-ebook/dp/B00788320W/ref=as_li_tf_cw?&linkCode=waf&tag=heirubmil-20">Greenshift</a></b> and runs concurrent with <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ambasadora-Book-1-Marked-Light-ebook/dp/B004ZR9WOY/ref=as_li_tf_cw?&linkCode=waf&tag=heirubmil-20">Marked by Light</a></b>.<br />
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<big>"Miller’s short third novel in the space-faring, caste-bound, hierarchically polyamorous, and socially striated Ambasadora universe (after 2013’s Greenshift) manages to balance the exoticized presentation of the setting with relatable human interaction...the romance between Ben and Naela highlights the emotional side of reaching out to those who are different from you, even in a world where those differences are stylized and codified."</big><br />
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Dog Star Books welcomes new author Laurel Myler! Laurel is a Salt Lake City native graduating from the University of Utah
with a degree in Psychology and Latin. She enjoys British lawn sports,
collecting model ships, manga, and watching trash TV with friends. Her
work has been performed at Westminster College and the Great Salt Lake
Fringe Festival. <i>City Ash and Desert Bones</i> is her first novel. You can find her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/victorylaurels" target="_blank">@victorylaurels</a>.<br />
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<b>Tell us about your first Dog Star release!</b><br />Three hundred years in the future, a tiny town called Big City in the middle-of-nowhere Nevada is finally getting apostles. The United States is run by a church government called the Theocracy and apostles, acting as liaisons, are how they police it all. A brand new pair has been sent to Big City to retrieve the desperately needed oil from the reserves under the land. Little do they know that the town is under siege by beings the locals call “takers.” Reesa, one of the apostles, is a sort of Frankenstein's monster created by the takers out of dismembered pieces of Big City citizens, only she doesn't know it yet. Everything pretty much goes to hell as soon as she arrives.<br /><br /><b>Who and what were your influences for this book?</b><br />This book is a strange sort of conglomeration of all kinds of weird media I’ve consumed and internalized over the years. I can point to <i>Rango </i>and <i>Back to the Future: Part III</i> in particular. Bits of it also come out of my own frustrations and education, particularly a psychology class I took my junior year of college called “Sensation and Perception” (which happened to be both frustrating and educational).<br /><br /><b>Describe your writing process, especially for this manuscript. </b><br />Every day, I typically wake up an hour earlier than whatever time I need to start getting ready and use that time to write. This could be drafting, experimenting, editing, you name it. I also keep a journal on me to jot down any notes that pop into my brain during the day.<br /><br />This manuscript was unique in that I composed it as part of the novel workshop course in the Honors College at the University of Utah. When I woke up, nine other people were waking up with me and working on their novels in their homes. We met weekly and workshopped regularly. My peers became a backboard for ideas and a tremendous support structure. Those friends kept me going when I wanted to give up.<br /><b><br />Why sci-fi/speculative fiction?</b><br />Honestly, because I hate dealing with reality. I think there’s a bit of an escapist, an imaginer, in all of us, and mine tends to dominate my thoughts. Writing for me is a refreshing break from the day-to-day trudge, and it wouldn’t really be a break if I wasn’t off in some alternate universe messing around with some other reality. I’ve had a great love for fantasy and science fiction since childhood. I blame <i>The Twilight Zone</i>. <br /><br /><b>What do you hope readers will take from this book?</b><br />I hope I’ve captured a bit of the beauty that is the hopeful hopelessness of mankind’s existence. We’re funny little creatures rolling around on the surface of a giant rock hurtling through space and everything we do is at once redundantly useless and tremendously important. Not everything has a happy ending, but that doesn’t make a life any less valuable. <br /><b><br />Can you leave us with a teaser?</b><br />Here’s how it all begins:<br />
<br />“Reesa did not know it yet, but when she stepped from the coach she was putting her foot down in the dirt where she would die, or that she was many different pieces of seven people who already had. The crystal white sole of her shoe set down on the ground with a crunch. The sound made her feel like she was stepping out of a time machine to the past. Away from the skyscrapers, away from the lights, away from everything she knew, to a tiny desert town too far west to warrant a dot on a map. Big City was certainly not what its name implied.”</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-30533526114254723012016-02-11T08:14:00.001-08:002016-02-11T08:16:12.418-08:00SF Signal Hosts THE CURIOSITY KILLERS Cover Reveal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Head on over to <a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2016/02/exclusive-cover-reveal-the-curiosity-killers-by-k-w/" target="_blank">SF Signal</a> for their exclusive reveal of <a href="http://www.bradsharp.co.uk/" target="_blank">Brad Sharp</a>'s cover for <a href="http://kwtaylorwriter.com/" target="_blank">K.W. Taylor</a>'s <i>The Curiosity Killers</i>! </div>
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In this caste-ruled society, where multiple partners are the norm, celebrity, beauty, and power mean everything. Love and jealousy are considered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods and sentiments biased by hormones. But sometimes people just fall in love...and that can be deadly.<br />
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Ben Anlow and his team embark on a revenge mission to bring down serial murderer and rapist, Liu Stavros, at his fortress in the inhospitable mountains of Tampa Three. But contractor Naela Starrie already has her own kind of vengeance planned for Stavros. Even as a battle-hardened soldier, Ben's not prepared for the darkness he sees in the female assassin, nor the way she challenges his prejudices about her people when she makes a sacrifice to save to his life.<br />
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FOREWORD by <a href="http://www.jasonjackmiller.com">Jason Jack Miller</a></b></center><br />
<b><big><a href="http://www.heidirubymiller.com/p/starrie.html">Find out more about this new novel on the STARRIE page at Heidi's site.</a></big></b></div>Heidi Ruby Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02190166838730021237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-58534603181136191022016-02-03T08:23:00.003-08:002016-02-18T10:00:06.716-08:00Introducing Laurel Myler and K.W. Taylor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Laurel Myler </b>is a Salt Lake City native graduating from the University of Utah with a degree in Psychology and Latin. She enjoys British lawn sports, collecting model ships, manga, and watching trash TV with friends. Her work has been performed at Westminster College and the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. <i>City Ash and Desert Bones</i> is her first novel. You can find her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/victorylaurels" target="_blank">@victorylaurels</a>.<br />
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<b>K.W. Taylor</b> is the author of the urban fantasy Sam Brody series, about a dragonslaying disc jockey (<i>The Red Eye</i> and <i>The House on Concordia Drive</i>,
both 2014 from Alliteration Ink). She has an MFA from Seton Hill
University. Taylor lives in a restored Victorian home in Ohio with her
tech writer husband and—unlike every other novelist in the world—an
insanely photogenic kitten. She teaches college English and Women’s
Studies and blogs at <a href="http://kwtaylorwriter.com/" target="_blank">kwtaylorwriter.com</a>. <i>The Curiosity Killers</i> is her first science fiction novel.</div>
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INDELIBLE INK</h3>
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It's What's Inside That Counts<br /><br />Something lurks inside Deena Riordan. She never once questioned her life in the criminal underworld as the star of Mr. Marsh's illegal empire and his youngest assassin. Her ruthless demeanor and dark magical powers have kept her at the top of the heap for years. But one day she pushes the sorcery too far and something snaps. Only then does Deena realize she's always been a puppet of that dark power with no true will of her own.<br /><br />Now, in order to get out of the crime business for good, she needs to save her sister from Marsh's angry clutches. It won't be easy. She'll have to make her way through friends turned foes, dodge determined federal agents, and stay out of a particularly stubborn fellow hitman's sights. Worst of all, Deena will have to wrestle with the darkness inside to keep it from swallowing her up again.</div>
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<b>Tell us about your new book!</b><br />I’m excited about Indelible Ink. At the core, it’s a story about the Riordan sisters, Deena and Harper. They both work for a crime boss named Marsh, but Deena differs from her sister in that she has a strange power that courses through her. It seems like an advantage in her line of work, until things start to deteriorate and she finds that power turning on her.<br /><br />Deena decides she wants out of the criminal life, but she can’t leave without her sister. Marsh wants to make sure that doesn’t happen, so he sends all of his criminal associates to stop her.<br /><br />I enjoyed writing this story and had fun drawing from many of my favorite pop culture influences.<br /><b><br /><br />Where did the idea for this story come from? What was the biggest influence for it?</b><br />The first two chapters were actually two separate short stories I’d written and I realized that it would be interesting to see the characters come together. The first story, about the protagonist, came from an idea I had about magic having consequences, you know? A character can’t use their powers as much as they want without expecting to be worn out or torn down from it.<br /><br />Like most of my work, Indelible Ink was influenced by a lot of different sources. It came from Elmore Leonard’s crime novels, TV shows like Alias, urban fantasy stories, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and other classic science fiction. I pull from a lot of my favorite things to get the end result in my work. You’ll find inspirations from John Woo to Scooby Doo. I honestly didn’t mean for that rhyme. <br /><br /><b><br />Tell us about your protagonist. Why are we going to love her?</b><br />Deena Riordan is a very conflicted individual. The life she leads is dangerous and most assuredly on the wrong side of the law, but she’s never cared. She finds out early on in the book that many of the things she believes are lies and it causes her to start making some hard decisions about her life. Very quickly, her criminal colleagues try to make those decisions for her. They won’t let her leave the business and they’re willing to go after her family to keep her power under their control.<br /><br />Did I not mention the dark power that lurks just beneath Deena’s skin? It gives her some amazing abilities, but it also takes things away from her and pushes her. The internal struggle breaks something in Deena as she tries to come to terms with what she is.<br /><br /><br /><b>Who's your favorite character in this book and why?</b><br />I’m always partial to my villains. I like the crime boss, Mr. Marsh quite a bit. His henchmen are pretty fun too, especially Morgan. It’s exciting to see how far I can bend and twist them, and how ugly they can get. You don’t want them to be cartoons or stereotypes, but they need to have their own personalities that make them different than the criminals you’re used to.<br /><br /><br /><b>What attracted you to science fiction, and how do you approach blending it with other genres?</b><br />I’ve always loved science fiction. The first movie I remember seeing in the theater was Star Wars, and it really had an effect on me. I’m sure that movie led me to pursue all the comic books and movies and television that I consumed in the following years. Every work of fiction kind of draws from the question “What If?”, but I think it’s more important in science fiction, really. Asking that question and starting there when I write, is half the fun for me.<br /><br /><br /><b>What do you want to get across in your writing, if anything?</b><br />Whether in movies, books or television, I’ve always loved action and adventure stories. It’s so much fun to get lost in someone else’s world for a while. I feel if readers enjoy their time in the place I’ve created, then I’m happy. In this book, I hit on the themes of family and responsibility.<br /><br /><br /><b>What are your future writing plans?</b><br />I’m working on a sequel to my first book, Odd Men Out. It’s really been fun to write so far. After that, most likely is the follow-up to Indelible Ink. There’s also a secret stealth project that’s in the editing stages right now. It’s been a whole lot of fun to create, so hopefully that works out. After that, I don’t have any definite plans. I have an idea for a military sci-fi novel, and a couple of others, but I really just want to see what I’m in the mood for once I’ve finished those sequels. I’m pretty open. <br /><br /><br /><b>Leave us with a favorite quote or excerpt.</b><br />Deena attempts to change her criminal ways, but it isn’t easy. Here’s a quick excerpt where she mulls that idea over while ‘accidentally’ stealing a car from a fitness instructor named Denise. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Denise was a bitch, wasn’t she? Deena thought. She reasoned that she could return the car when she was done, if she had to. What was a few hundred or thousand miles more on the odometer anyway, right? It wasn’t like she was killing Denise. That’s what she would have done in the old days. Was there a distinction between her old life of crime and casual use of her Shadow Energy?<br /><br />Baby steps.<br /><br />Deena closed the trunk, got in and, rather than flooring it, quietly drove out of the lot and onto the road. She let the exercise lady’s GPS device guide her to the nearest road that paralleled a major highway and took off at a sensible speed. She reached into her bag for the phone to try to keep in touch with her sister and was pleasantly surprised to find a sleeve of crackers and some slices of cheese wrapped up in a paper towel. She was not as excited when she remembered those were stolen as well.<br /><br />She crunched a cracker and let the crumbs fall all over Denise’s seat and floor.<br /><br />Baby steps.</span></span></span><br /></div>
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<a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/indelible-ink/" target="_blank">Pre-order</a> INDELIBLE INK, and join Matt and other Dog Star authors at the In Your Write Mind book signing on Friday, June 26th at 7:00 PM.</h4>
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<br />Matt Betts was born in Lima, Ohio, some years ago. Lima is just a stone’s throw away from several other towns with excellent throwing stones. During and after college, Matt worked for a number of years in radio as an on-air personality, anchor and reporter. His fiction and poetry have appeared in various magazines, journals and anthologies.<br /><br /><br />Matt currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and sons. He is hard at work on his next book. And watching old science fiction and horror movies. Mostly writing. And maybe reading comic books. Look, he’s writing, OK? Jeez.<br /><br /><br />Find out more about Matt at his website, <a href="http://www.mattbetts.com/">www.mattbetts.com</a>. He tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/betts_matt" target="_blank">@Betts_Matt</a>.</div>
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STEEL VICTORY</h3>
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The “official” answer: My dad is also a writer, with two published
military fiction books and a couple of screenplays floating around. One of
these days I’m going to finish up the urban fantasy I know he has languishing
on a hard drive somewhere. But we’re all friends here, so I’ll let you in on a
little secret: When I was 11 years old, I spontaneously invented fanfiction and
had fun inserting myself into my favorite television shows. Fast forward 2
years, and I discovered that a whole lot of other people were doing something
very similar on the Internet. I continued to dabble in fanfiction for the rest
of middle and high school, but I also started working on my own original
stories inspired by the amazing worlds already out there. And thus started my
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Incredibly inconsistent. I already have a day job, and I don’t need or
want another. So I set goals for myself, but unless I have an external
deadline, I don’t feel guilty if I totally blow them. While STEEL VICTORY was a
project 10 years in the making, I proved to myself that I could write a
full-length novel within a year in 2014 when I wrote the sequel (a combination
of National Novel Writing Month [NaNoWriMo] and smaller word-count goals
through the rest of the fall and winter months). I’m on track do that again
this year with book 3, with another combination of NaNoWriMo and the
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In terms of location, I work best when I’m not around the Internet.
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One of my biggest pet peeves is coming across long, detailed passages
in books where the author basically says “The research I did: Let me show you
it!” So I will read books about the area/time period I’m writing in and
specifically not take notes in order to get a feel for the world or atmosphere
I’m diving into. During the writing itself, I make notes to myself about
certain specific things I will need to look up later. For STEEL VICTORY, this
involved research into cargo shipping by river and various weaponry. Most
visitors to my home office were kind enough not to ask why I had printouts of
random river boats and container ships hanging above my desk.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Do you ever get stuck in your writing, and if so, how do you
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I am definitely a “plotter” rather than a “pantser,” which means I have
the general events and conflicts of each scene outlined before I start writing
a word of the book itself. On the other hand, I really need to start
instituting this policy for short fiction. I get stuck there a lot because I am
not as comfortable with the constraints. Usually, I put the project away and do
something completely different that doesn’t involve a computer. Depending on
the time of day, that can involve going to the gym, reading a book, or just
hanging out with my cats. Later, usually while driving or in the shower,
everything in my brain untangles and I figure out where I need to go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Describe your favorite place to write.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I bounced around between my local Starbucks and some other chain-store
cafes near my house, but nothing was ever comfortable. Awkward table set ups,
too loud, too cold, etc. A little less than 6 months ago, a friend who has
lived in the area much longer than me pointed me toward a small independent
coffee shop called Bean Hollow in Historic Ellicott City and showed me the best
(easiest) parking, which had been my major deterrent from hanging out in
“Historic” previously. Its super cliché to be writing in a coffee shop, but I
adore it. I’m a supporter of small/local business where possible, and the
coffee is amazing. It’s incredibly busy on the weekends and they ask that
people not take up tables with work then, but it’s a perfect place to have a
sandwich and a latte during weekday evenings after sitting in an office all
day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>How do you balance writing with real life?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Two things definitely help: My incredibly inconsistent writing schedule
and an even more incredibly patient husband.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes I do get frustrated if I’m on a writing roll and I have other
commitments for the evening that can’t be avoided. However, not being the sort
of writer who feels that she “must” hit a certain word count per day/week/month
reduces a lot of the constant stress I think I would otherwise be under.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My husband also has his own hobbies, such as sports and video games,
that afford me a lot of time to focus on my writing. But one of the awesome
things about his hobbies and my writing style is that we can still get
“together” time if, for example, he is on the couch playing Destiny with his
headphones on to chat with other players and I am right next to him typing away
on the laptop with Pandora playing on my own headphones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Don’t ask me how writers with kids do it. They are the real heroes.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Who is your literary hero or heroine?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sauscony Valdoria, one of the major protagonists in Catherine Asaro’s
Skolian Empire series. She is a fierce, intelligent space fighter pilot who
also happens to be a wife and mother. Neither of the latter traits in any way
diminishes her capacity to be a completely badass warrior. She is easily part
of the inspiration for my own protagonists as well as an inspiration in my own
life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>If you were stuck on a deserted island with three books, which ones
would they be?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m totally going to cheat here and give you series instead:<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Catherine Asaro’s Skolian Empire series<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Mercedes Lackey’s Heralds of Valdemar series<o:p></o:p></div>
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-Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels series<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>If you could hang out with one author, living or dead, for an
entire day, who would it be and what would you do?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Oscar Wilde. We would enjoy a leisurely brunch and chat about life and
writing over mimosas, spend a quiet afternoon writing and bouncing ideas off of
each other, and then spend the evening partying like mad. This plan can easily
be executed in either his time period or my own!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Do you have any advice for beginning writers?</b></div>
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Your only competition is yourself. At the same time, it’s not really a
competition at all. Have faith in yourself and stay true to yourself in both
your writing and during forays into the crazy publishing world. Everything is
changing so quickly these days, so remember that there are very few hard and
fast right or wrong answers. Listen to all the advice you can, but always do
what feels right for you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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STEEL VICTORY releases June 26th and is available for <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/steel-victory/" target="_blank">pre-order</a>.</h3>
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By day, <b><a href="http://www.jlgribble.com/" target="_blank">J. L. Gribble</a></b> is a professional medical editor. By night, she does freelance fiction editing in all genres, along with reading, playing video games, and occasionally even writing.<br />
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Previously, Gribble studied English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She received her Master’s degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and <i>Steel Victory </i>was her thesis novel for the program. This is her debut novel.<br />
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She lives in Ellicott City, Maryland, with her husband and three vocal Siamese cats. <b>Find her online</b> (<a href="http://www.jlgribble.com/">www.jlgribble.com</a>), on Facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/jlgribblewriter">www.facebook.com/jlgribblewriter</a>), and on <a href="https://twitter.com/hannaedits" target="_blank">Twitter </a>and <a href="https://instagram.com/hannaedits/" target="_blank">Instagram </a>(@hannaedits). She is currently working on more tales set in the world of Limani.</div>
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STEEL VICTORY</h3>
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<em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: prenton, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">One hundred years ago</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: prenton, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, the vampire Victory retired from a centuries-long mercenary career. She settled in Limani, the independent city-state acting as a neutral zone between the British and Roman colonies on the New Continent.</span><br />
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<em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Twenty years ago</em>, Victory adopted a human baby girl, who soon showed signs of magical ability.</div>
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<em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Today</em>, Victory is a city councilwoman, balancing the human and supernatural populations within Limani. Her daughter Toria is a warrior-mage, balancing life as an apprentice mercenary with college chemistry courses.</div>
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<em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Tomorrow</em>, the Roman Empire invades.</div>
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J.L. Gribble joins us today to talk about her upcoming release, <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/steel-victory/" target="_blank">STEEL VICTORY</a>.</h3>
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<b>Tell us about your new book!</b></div>
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STEEL VICTORY is an urban fantasy/alternate history. There are elements
of political thriller, mother-daughter drama, and female coming-of-age story
set against the backdrop of a family trying to defend its home against outside
invaders. But when the family includes vampires and magic-users; their allies
include elves, mercenaries, and werecreatures; and the invaders are the Roman
Empire, the excitement is going to be turned up a notch.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Where did the idea for this story come from? What was the
biggest influence for it?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve been an avid reader of urban fantasy for a long time, but one
thing about it really bothered me: I flat out don’t believe that we could live
in a world where magical and mythical creatures live out of sight, unnoticed by
the general human population. So I started thinking about what historical
influences these communities of creatures would have, such as long-lived
vampires on the senate preventing the fall of the Roman Empire, the werewolf
clans of Albion uniting to drive out the Romans and form the modern British
Empire, and the elves using magic to suppress technological evolution after the
horrors of a world war.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I didn’t want to write a worldwide political epic, so I focused on
one tiny corner of the planet. The city of Limani, and nearby Jarimis
University, were heavily influenced by my undergrad alma mater in southern
Maryland, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. The location, atmosphere, and love of
the campus and community that I experienced there translate into how my
characters feel about their own home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Tell us about your protagonists. Why are we going to love
them?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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There are two major POV characters in this book, the vampire Victory
and her adopted human daughter Toria. Both women definitely have things to love
about them. Fans of Victory will appreciate her willingness to try the
political approach to problems first, despite (or perhaps because of) her mercenary
background and long life experience. But that won’t stop her from grabbing her
sword when diplomacy fails! Toria, on the other hand, has much more of the
hot-headedness of youth on her side, and her fans will be drawn to her stubbornness
and determination to do what she thinks is right. And her ability to get back
up again when it all goes horribly wrong.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Who's your favorite character in this book and why?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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While of course I adore my two leading ladies, I definitely had the
most fun writing Syri, a young elf who becomes Toria’s partner-in-crime for a
good portion of the book. She’s cranky, she’s cynical, and her voice flows so
naturally that every scene with her was a breeze to write. I hope readers get a
kick out of her as much as I do!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What attracted you to science fiction, and how do you approach
blending it with other genres?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I grew up watching <i>Star Trek</i>
(re-runs of both the original series and <i>The
Next Generation</i>) with my grandmother, and had a standing date watching <i>Star Trek: Voyager</i> with my mother all
through middle school and high school during the original airings. On my own, I
was watching more contemporary-era shows like <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>, <i>The
X-Files</i>, and <i>Highlander: The Series</i>
and reading sprawling sagas like Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, Catherine
Asaro’s Skolian Empire, and Mercedes Lackey’s Heralds of Valdemar series. I
think being really into these incredibly diverse universes that everyone around
me lumped into “one” genre really informed my personal approach to speculative
fiction, which is to never limit myself to the stereotypes and tropes of one
particular genre or subgenre. Which leads me to the next question:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What do you want to get across in your writing, if anything?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Another thing these universes all had in common that must have spoken
to me a lot is the idea that a story can focus on a small group of characters,
but that their actions can have ripples across worlds. While “monster of the
week”-style storytelling can be fun, I find myself really drawn to the more
intricate “metaplots” that carry across from one book or episode to the next in
a series or show. The phrase “Write what you love” is very important to me, and
since I would totally geek out at seeing a bit character in a prequel story
show up in a later novel, or vice versa, that’s the sort of thing that has
really influenced my development of this series.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What are your future writing plans?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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STEEL VICTORY stands alone, but it is intended to be a small episode in
a much bigger universe of stories. I’d love to be able to put out a seven-book
arc (don’t worry: book 2 is already drafted and book 3 is in the
research/outline stage) with lots of short stories filling in the gaps and
history (two of those are drafted, three more need to be revised, and another
is in the outline stage). So I’m excited to be here for as long as you’ll have
me!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Leave us with an exciting excerpt.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Toria stared across the river, trying to ignore the
tap dancers in her skull. Everything in her urged her to go south, track the
damn Romans, and rescue Kane. Yes, he still lived, but for how long?<o:p></o:p></div>
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She was at the edge of the water, waves lapping at her
boots, before she realized what she was doing. “No, Toria.” She didn’t even
have a water bottle, much less weaponry. Her magic was strong, but a rescue
attempt would be a lot easier with a blade in her hand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With great reluctance, she pulled herself away from
the water’s edge. No, she would have to return to Limani for aid. And
painkillers. At least she’d accomplished their mission. The Romans were close
to the city, and she had to bring the warning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Toria distracted herself from her head by gripping the
glowing glass even tighter in her hand. The power in the bauble strained, and
the light guttered like a candle, then went out. When she attempted to
reactivate the spell, sharp pain lanced her between the eyes and she doubled
over again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She hoped dawn came soon. It would be a long,
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Stay tuned for the second part of J.L.'s interview, coming soon. STEEL VICTORY releases June 26th and is available for <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/steel-victory/" target="_blank">pre-order</a>.</h3>
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By day, <b><a href="http://www.jlgribble.com/" target="_blank">J. L. Gribble</a></b> is a professional medical editor. By night, she does freelance fiction editing in all genres, along with reading, playing video games, and occasionally even writing.<br />
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Previously, Gribble studied English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She received her Master’s degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and <i>Steel Victory </i>was her thesis novel for the program. This is her debut novel.<br />
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She lives in Ellicott City, Maryland, with her husband and three vocal Siamese cats. <b>Find her online</b> (<a href="http://www.jlgribble.com/">www.jlgribble.com</a>), on Facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/jlgribblewriter">www.facebook.com/jlgribblewriter</a>), and on <a href="https://twitter.com/hannaedits" target="_blank">Twitter </a>and <a href="https://instagram.com/hannaedits/" target="_blank">Instagram </a>(@hannaedits). She is currently working on more tales set in the world of Limani.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-85939286812501655262015-02-04T10:54:00.000-08:002015-02-04T10:54:54.318-08:00WORKSHOP: Science Fiction in Thrillers by Heidi Ruby Miller at Pennwriters 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Where would you shelve a book about scientists cloning dinosaurs for a
theme park or a man turning into a chimera or how about the unleashing
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The <b><a class="amzn_view_checked" href="http://www.pennwriters.org/prod">Pennwriters Conference</a></b> is in Pittsburgh this year on the weekend of May 15 - 17 at the <b><a class="amzn_view_checked" href="http://www.pennwriters.org/prod/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=431&Itemid=199">Pittsburgh Airport Marriott</a></b>. Keynote speaker is <b><a class="amzn_view_checked" href="http://ridleypearson.com/">Ridley Pearson</a></b>. For a full list of workshops, peruse the <b><a class="amzn_view_checked" href="http://www.pennwriters.org/prod/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=439&Itemid=206">website</a></b>. </div>
Heidi Ruby Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02190166838730021237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-65816062230651478422014-09-23T10:20:00.001-07:002014-09-23T10:50:12.126-07:00Tech Tuesday with Matt Betts - Low-Tech Tuesday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Tech Tuesday is a weekly spotlight on the relationship between real life and a writer's imagination. As science fiction is all about looking ahead to the future, we asked our authors here at Dog Star Books to send us to a link to a new technology that influenced their writing, sparked a new idea for a story, or simply caught their attention and got them thinking.</b><br />
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Matt Betts was born and raised in Lima, OH, and went to college in Toledo. He currently lives in Columbus with his wife, Mackenzie, and their two wonderful boys. Matt's short and flash fiction has focused a lot on humor and horror. His work appears in Arkham Tales, Ethereal Tales, the Triangulation: Taking Flight anthology, Bizarro Fiction! The Journal of Experimental Fiction 37, A Thousand Faces and Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy. Matt's poetry has been published in numerous venues, and his poem "Godzilla's Better Half" was nominated for a Rhysling Aware, the Science Fiction Poetry Association's highest honor. Matt is the author of <i>Odd Men Out</i>, a story of survival in a post-Civil War America overrun by zombies.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-67855173657386112232014-08-26T09:24:00.001-07:002014-08-26T09:24:50.404-07:00Tech Tuesday with Drew Conry-Murray - Robot Friends, Robot Foes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve always been fascinated by robots and artificial intelligence. I find the idea of sentient machines both alluring and scary. The allure comes from the potential for robot companionship, like the robot from Lost in Space, who served as both friend and guardian for Will Robinson. And of course there’s R2-D2. While R2 doesn’t have human features or speak English (or whatever is the lingua franca of the humans in Star Wars), he’s willful, clever, and loyal. I don’t think I’d mind having R2 <u><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/opinion/sunday/the-future-of-robot-caregivers.html?_r=0" target="_blank">take care of me when I’m old and decrepit</a></u>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My fear of thinking machines crops up in my novel Wasteland Blues in the form of Mr. Tines, a robot who takes his duties as curator of a museum dedicated to the folly of humanity a bit too seriously for our protagonists. Mr. Tines is polite, earnest, and implacable in wanting to embalm one or two of our travelers to use in an exhibit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now that I think about it, the implacability, the relentlessness to achieve an objective, may be the root of my fear. Humans can be relentless in pursuit of misguided or downright evil goals, but they’re still flesh and blood. When you sheath an unyielding will in a body of steel, you create something truly terrifying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">about Drew Conry-Murray at his website, <a href="http://andrewconry-murray.com/">andrewconry-murray.com</a>, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and follow him on Twitter @DrewConry Murray.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">An article on biohacking: <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/cyborgs-among-us-human-biohackers-embed-chips-their-bodies-n150756">http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/cyborgs-among-us-human-biohackers-embed-chips-their-bodies-n150756</a></span></div>
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Biohacking became a small but strong movement thanks mainly to body modification artists like Steve Haworth who were already skilled in piercing and scarification — and they were aided by our changing relationship with technology. Is it really so extreme, they ask, to wed technology and tissue in a time when we can't go a single day without our smartphones? We clutch our devices like talismans, wear Google Glass on our faces and have developed doors that unlock by tracking our heartbeats.</div>
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But the leap from Google Glass to sub-dermal technology is a big one, and real-life cyborgs are far from mainstream.</div>
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"You get this visceral reaction, this recoil, from people who make a snap judgment and don't know what it's about," said Amal Graafstra, a cyborg who creates and sells biohacking devices — including a chip that Zoe Quinn implanted in her own hand in May — through his company Dangerous Things.</div>
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Just $39 buys a glass-encased embeddable chip that works with some Android smartphones. A full DIY cyborg kit, including a sterilized injector and gauze pads, runs about $100.</div>
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I write cyberpunk, which deals with the near future, as well as the implantation of tech devices and/or genetic manipulation. This biohacking movement has been a trope in cyberpunk for decades, and we're seeing it come to pass. The process for mainstream adoption is for an idea to be adopted by 1) innovators, 2) early adopters, 3) early majority, 4) late majority, and 5) laggards. I think we're in phase 2, but I'm no social scientist. As a writer, I can use the ideas within this article and try to project out 60 or so years to craft a somewhat believable future in my books. For example, even though doctors now shun this type of implantation, I think an entire industry will spring up where doctors will undergo different levels of certification to become qualified to implant tech in people.</div>
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Dog Star Books is pleased to announce we have signed a deal to release J.L. Gribble’s debut novel Steel Victory in 2015.<br />
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Originally a thesis novel from Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction graduate program, Steel Victory is an alternate-history urban fantasy. The independent city-state of Limani is beset from within by human separatists and from without by the territory-hungry Roman Empire. The city’s lone vampire and her adopted warrior-mage daughter must join forces with the other supernatural creatures of Limani to defend their city, their culture, and their very lives.<br />
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J.L. Gribble is fascinated by the construct of the English language. By day, she is a full-time medical editor, in which she wrangles authors and translates medico-babble into something coherent. On the side, she does freelance fiction editing in all genres, along with reading, playing video games, and occasionally even writing. Most recently, she was co-editor of Far Worlds, a speculative fiction anthology.<br />
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language. By day, she is a full-time medical editor, in which she wrangles authors
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freelance fiction editing in all genres, along with reading, playing video
games, and occasionally even writing. Most recently, she was co-editor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Far Worlds</i>, a speculative fiction
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This year DogCon 3 is being held during <a href="http://www.confluence-sff.org/">Confluence</a>. Dog Star Books authors Matt Betts & Albert Wendland will be involved in the regular programming as Michael Arnzen, Lucy Snyder and John Edward Lawson from parent publisher Raw Dog Screaming Press. There will be a rapid-fire reading, we'll announce the winner of this year's Readers' Choice award and host an End of the World launch party for Lucy Snyder's <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/soft-apocalypses/" title="Soft Apocalypses">Soft Apocalypses</a>. Below you'll find a schedule all the events our authors will be involved in.<br />
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4 pm Opening: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">John E. Lawson</strong></div>
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5 pm Making the Science Sing: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Albert Wendland</strong></div>
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6 pm Happiness in Horror: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Michael Arnzen, Lucy Snyder</strong></div>
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My (Girlfriend, Mother, Sister) will Kick your Butt: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">J.L. Gribble</strong></div>
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Kaffee Klatsch: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Matt Betts</strong></div>
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7 pm The Games We Play: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Lucy Snyder</strong></div>
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Autographing: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Matt Betts</strong></div>
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Kaffee Klatsch: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Michael Arnzen</strong></div>
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8 pm RDSP Rapid Fire Reading: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Matt Betts, Michael Arnzen, Lucy Snyder, J.L. Gribble, Albert Wendland, John Edward Lawson<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;" />ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNER OF THE READERS’ CHOICE AWARD</strong></div>
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9 pm ***SOFT APOCALYPSES launch party*** <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Lucy Snyder, </strong>Room 525</div>
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10 am What Dreams May Come: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Albert Wendland</strong></div>
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Writing Workshop: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Matt Betts, J.L. Gribble</strong></div>
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11 am Non-SF books every SF reader should read: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Albert Wendland</strong></div>
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What Makes You Think That? <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">John Edward Lawson</strong></div>
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12 pm SF as Games; Games as SF: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> Lucy Snyder</strong></div>
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Making it on Mars: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Albert Wendland</strong></div>
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1 pm Humor and Genre: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Michael Arnzen</strong></div>
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2 pm The Writing & Publishing Game: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">John Edward Lawson</strong></div>
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4 pm Collaboration: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Lucy Snyder</strong></div>
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5 pm Why did Steam punk? <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Matt Betts</strong></div>
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These Kids Today: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">J.L. Gribble</strong></div>
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10 pm Erotica: Writing, reading in more than 50 shades of grey: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Lucy Snyder</strong></div>
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12 pm Writing and the Day Job: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Lucy Snyder</strong></div>
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SF Art and Illustration: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Albert Wendland</strong></div>
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Truly Creative: Financial realities of the writing life: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Lucy Snyder, Matt Betts</strong></div>
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2 pm The Amazon’s Right Breast: Women in Combat: <strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Lucy Snyder</strong></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">The In Your Write Mind book signing at Seton Hill University was also the site of the launch of Albert Wendland's THE MAN WHO LOVED ALIEN LANDSCAPES. The book sold out in the first hour of the signing, helping Raw Dog Screaming Press break our record for the most sales at an event by 150%. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You can read Al's blog post on the book signing at <a href="http://albertwendland.blogspot.com/2014/06/signing-your-book-and-what-it-really.html">his blog</a> and view photos from the event below.</span><br />
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Dog Star Books authors Matt Betts, Heidi Ruby Miller, Al Wendland, and K. Ceres Wright were on hand Friday night to take part in a massive book signing as part of the In Your Write Mind workshop at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. Raw Dog Screaming Press broke our record for most sales at an event by 150%!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shanna Sampson receives a signed copy of <i>Ambasadora </i>from Heidi Ruby Miller</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">K. Ceres Wright shows off a poster for <i>COG</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raw Dog author Jason Jack Miller shares a laugh with Dog Star author Matt Betts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">K. Ceres Wright signs a copy of <i>COG </i>for Becky Watson</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amy Culey receives a signed copy of <i>Greenshift </i>from Heidi Ruby Miller</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dog Star authors K. Ceres Wright, Al Wendland, Heidi Ruby Miller, and Matt Betts</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-62219539244345182672014-06-25T21:23:00.002-07:002014-09-03T11:02:41.972-07:00Event: In Your Write Mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<strong>June 26-29 • Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA </strong><br />
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<br />Every year Seton Hill hosts a writing workshop that includes classes
on various professional writing topics, guest lectures and workshops
from industry professionals, pitch sessions a massive book signing (free
and open to the public) and a costume ball. This is an excellent way
for writers to hone their craft and make connections. To learn more and
sign up for the workshop go <a href="http://inyourwritemind.setonhill.edu/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<strong>The MASSIVE author signing is FREE and OPEN to the Public</strong>!<br />
Friday, June 27, 7-10pm<br />
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DSB authors who will be signing books this year include:<br />
<a href="http://dogstarbooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/dog-star-books-author-matt-betts.html">Matt Betts </a><br />
<a href="http://dogstarbooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/dog-star-books-author-heidi-ruby-miller.html">Heidi Ruby Miller</a><br />
<a href="http://dogstarbooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/dog-star-books-author-k-ceres-wright.html">K. Ceres Wright</a><br />
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In addition to the book signing, Dog Star Books will be debuting <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/man-loved-alien-landscapes/">THE MAN WHO LOVED ALIEN LANDSCAPES</a> by <a href="http://dogstarbooks.blogspot.com/2013/09/dog-star-books-author-albert-wendland.html">Albert Wendland</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-7763271575075508132014-05-20T12:01:00.000-07:002014-05-20T12:01:49.202-07:00Albert Wendland Named Professor of the Year<a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Albert-Wendland-02.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Albert Wendland 02" class="alignleft wp-image-2642 size-medium" src="http://rawdogscreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Albert-Wendland-02-224x300.jpg" height="300" width="224" /></a>Congratulations to Dog Star Books author Albert Wendland who was recently named Professor of the Year by Seton Hill University. Wendland received his award during Spring Convocation and was also honored to give the keynote speech. In true writerly fashion he told a story instead. You can read the text of the speech <a href="http://albertwendland.blogspot.com/2014/05/professor-of-year-convocation-speech.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Wendland has been at Seton Hill for over 30 years and was instrumental in helping to create their unique writing program. He is currently the Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University and his first novel, <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/man-loved-alien-landscapes/" title="Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes, The">The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes</a> will be released by Raw Dog Screaming Press' science fiction imprint, Dog Star Books, in July.Raw Dog Screaming Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169827853798972085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-67307005574400508022014-05-16T12:34:00.000-07:002014-05-20T12:15:06.979-07:00ODD MEN OUT is a Hoffer Award Finalist<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO9p2wNz_CW3fDguLjfVp_PmvwEhIWk4Q-0isuGcMt_Rwqa8omMfdzhqblgI8TP1YgQyQBMX82StJqw5zWWKbDE_3gUGnUmEE-OXQ00ORqw1J_Arzk6iHfRW4K-YfqXf2-R9vo5Nr1NJ8/s1600/HofferAward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO9p2wNz_CW3fDguLjfVp_PmvwEhIWk4Q-0isuGcMt_Rwqa8omMfdzhqblgI8TP1YgQyQBMX82StJqw5zWWKbDE_3gUGnUmEE-OXQ00ORqw1J_Arzk6iHfRW4K-YfqXf2-R9vo5Nr1NJ8/s1600/HofferAward.jpg" height="320" width="235" /></a>It's been announced that <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/odd-men-out/" title="Odd Men Out"><b>ODD MEN OUT</b></a> by <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/authors/matt-betts/" title="Matt Betts">Matt Betts</a> is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Less than 10% of the titles under consideration become finalists so we're quite honored that it received this recognition You can see a complete list of winners <a href="http://www.HofferAward.com/HAcategoryfinalists.html#.U3ZlKSjtiXw" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<strong>In addition, the cover that Bradley Sharp created for the book is also a DaVinci Eye finalist!</strong>
Congratulations to Bradley Sharp who works hard to infuse every cover he creates for us with the true essence of the book inside. He is also the single force behind the cohesive look and feel of Dog Star Books.
See the complete <a href="http://www.hofferaward.com/HAdaVincishortlist.html#.U2JBqijtiXx" target="_blank">list of book covers</a> recognized by The Eric Hoffer Award.
Check out Brad's <a href="http://www.bradsharp.co.uk/" target="_blank">website </a>for more amazing art.<br />
Raw Dog Screaming Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169827853798972085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674728355059357601.post-49560654420982300532014-05-15T11:02:00.000-07:002014-05-15T11:02:13.273-07:00The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes: Starred Review<a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/man-loved-alien-landscapes/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes, The"><img alt="BOOKS-theman" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2644" src="http://rawdogscreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/BOOKS-theman.jpg" /></a>We were extremely excited to hear that Publishers Weekly has given <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/man-loved-alien-landscapes/" target="_blank" title="Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes, The">The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes</a> by <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/authors/albert-wendland/" target="_blank" title="Albert Wendland">Albert Wendland </a>a starred <a href="https://www.blogger.com/We%20were%20extremely%20excited%20to%20hear%20that%20Publishers%20Weekly%20has%20given%20The%20Man%20Who%20Loved%20Alien%20Landscapes%20by%20Albert%20Wendland%20a%20starred%20review%20and%20made%20it%20the%20Pick%20of%20the%20Week!%20This%20is%20the%20first%20time%20one%20of%20our%20titles%20has%20received%20a%20starred%20review%20from%20Publishers%20Weekly." target="_blank">review</a> and made it the Pick of the Week! This is the first time one of our titles has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
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The Man Who Love Alien Landscapes is currently available for <a href="http://rawdogscreaming.com/books/man-loved-alien-landscapes/" title="Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes, The">pre-order</a> and will debut at <a href="http://www.confluence-sff.org/">Confluence 2014</a> in Pittsburgh, PA, July 25-27.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Having only ever known the uncivilized wake of nuclear and biological apocalypse, three friends and their wheelchair-bound hostage set out on a perilous fool’s mission--to cross from one side of the devastated United States to the other, in the desperate, half-believed hope of finding a rumored haven. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Spurred by a dark vision and the murder of their father, rageaholic Derek Cane and his over-sized, simple-minded brother, Teddy, flee the only home they've ever known, a struggling shantytown on the edge of the vast Wasteland. Heading ever eastward, they are accompanied by their friend, John, an orphan brought up by a fanatical religious order, and Leggy, a crippled old drunk who brags that, in his youth, he once traversed the Wasteland as a scavenger.</span></span></div>
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