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Rita Arens

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My latest novel, The Birthright of Parker Cleaves , was published in August 2019 by InkSpell Publishing. Let me know if you check it out!

My first young adult novel is The Obvious Game from InkSpell Publishing. The Obvious Game is available in paperback and ebook (all formats) online at Kobo, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, InkSpell Publishing and Indiebound and is a 2016 Library Journal Self-e Selection.

Together with Stacy Morrison and Julie Ross Godar, I edited ROOTS (Open Road, 2013). My work has appeared in BlogHer Voices of the Year: 2012 (Open Road, 2012) and Kirtsy Takes a Bow (Bright Sky Press, 2009).

I edited Sleep Is for the Weak (Chicago Review Press, 2008), which won a 2009 National Parenting Publications Award.


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Rita Arens I deal with writer's block by reading books, lots of different genres. Also short stories -- their brevity often drives home a central point better th…moreI deal with writer's block by reading books, lots of different genres. Also short stories -- their brevity often drives home a central point better than a novel and gets me thinking about what message I want to bring to my readers with that particular novel. (less)
Rita Arens I've never had anyone frown when I told them I am a writer. Usually their eyebrows raise. It's nice.…moreI've never had anyone frown when I told them I am a writer. Usually their eyebrows raise. It's nice.(less)
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Typepad, you are useless. I should have left you decades ago. But, much like an AOL email address, I���m just too lazy to quit you. 


 


I talked to my husband about this. ���I know a person,��� I said. but the effort to clean up 15-year-old writing feels similar to an abandoned wood bench. It would feel good to purge it, but good enough to warrant the effort? One wonders. 


 


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