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Emily C. Burger

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in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

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http://emilycburger.wix.com/author

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Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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I've always been a little odd I suppose, dreaming up mythical creatures and climbing castle walls in my childhood back gardens.

I spent my early childhood in South Africa before moving to England at the age of 8. I lived there with my family for three years before we returned to the hot Eastern Coast of Africa's tip. It's moulded me into some kind of hybrid, an abnormally English yet very much outdoor adventurer.

But no matter where I was, I've always been a writer. My experiences through Europe and Africa leaked into my writing and fuelled an intense hunger for travel within me. My goal was always to publish a book, and to do it before I finished school. I never expected it would come true, but God has blessed me so immensely that by the a ...more

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Thieves of Greatness

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Any writer - published or not, can tell you that the words we spill out onto the page or tap into the keyboard are by no means superficial. We bleed out our deepest pains, our inner being, and our very soul. Our wildest imaginations, which in any other form would risk sentencing us to mental institutions, leek out into our words and stain the minds of our readers. Our dreams, our loves and our gre Read more of this blog post »

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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

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