James Cardona
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Gabriella and Dr. Duggan's Secret Dimensional Transport Machine (NuGen, #1)
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2012
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Under the Shadow of Darkness (Apprentice, #1)
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Santa Claus vs The Aliens
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Community 17
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The Dragon’s Castle (Apprentice, #2)
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Gabriella and the Curse of the Black Spot (NuGen, #2)
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Dragon Hunters
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A Prayer Warrior’s Guide: How to Pray for People for Divine Healing
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The Night Wolf
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The Worthy Apprentice (Apprentice, #3)
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Challenge: 50 Books: Vicki's 2014 Books | 14 | 60 | Dec 04, 2014 07:48PM | |
Genre Specific Re...: Romance Review Group 4 (Completed) | 47 | 43 | Dec 16, 2016 02:07AM | |
Genre Specific Re...: Short Book Review Group 2 - Fantasy/Science Fiction (Completed) | 39 | 35 | Dec 22, 2016 01:15AM |
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
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“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I’ll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I’m just plain not talented or skilled enough to write. That’s the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead

“Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation—it is the Self escaping into the open.”
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