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My journey to becoming a writer began with a love of books, Goosebumps to start followed quickly by Stephen King and Dean Koontz. I later found and fell in love with Robert McCammon as well as works outside of the genre. I wrote stories about alien abductions and sentient scarecrows. I still have some of these stories and...wow. Awful! I never stopped writing but my life would only allow it to be a hobby until I was around thirty. I submitted my first story to a competition and was given an honorable mention. That gave me the confidence to submit elsewhere, including The NoSleep Podcast. My fist acceptance barely caused a ripple, but it lit a fire in me. I placed stories with homegrown anthologies, cobbled together my own collection, and ev ...more

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Drew Starling writes prose that will stop you on the page and hold you there. Seriously. It is not without purpose. It adds depth and texture to a story that is both harrowing and horrific. The lush imagery,
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I can't remember the last book I began and finished in one day. Mosaic was my introduction to Catherine McCarthy, and I devoured it.

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What a rush that was! I started this book a couple of months ago and made it my "son's gymnastics class" read. With holidays and bad weather, several classes were canceled. That it took me a while to finish is
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I purchased The Militia House based off Brian Keene's endorsement. I went into the plot blind, knowing only that the author was a service member.

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“Sometimes it’s the pain that gets you out of bed in the morning. Sometimes it’s the pain, not love that makes you question your place in the Universe. You chose the pain to discover something about yourself.”
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