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Grace Hawthorne

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Salem, New Jersey, The United States
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I am Yankee born and Southern raised. Born in New Jersey, grew up in Louisiana, lived in Texas, Germany, New York City and now Georgia.
Ever since I got my first byline in junior high, I’ve been a writer, mostly freelance. I’ve written advertising copy for septic tanks, the libretto for an opera, lyrics for Sesame Street and worked as an editor for Time-Life Books and a national storytelling magazine. At one point, I was full time-free lance writing the book and lyrics for children’s musicals. One of them, It’s Cool in the Furnace. According to the publisher, it is the longest selling children’s’ musical in sacred music history.

My first novel, Shorter’s Way, is a political love story about rambunctious Georgia politics in the 1920s. My secon
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Shorter's Way

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Waterproof Justice

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Lost River

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I love Google

I know I’ve said this before but I love Google. This morning I was working on Crossing the Moss Line. I was writing about tokens for the NY subways and it occurred to me that I should check to see if riders were actually using token in 1943. Turns out, they were not.

The original fee was a nickel, not 5 pennies, but a nickel. Then the fare went to a dime, not two nickels but a dime. When the fare Read more of this blog post »
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