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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt

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Fiction, Contemporary, Classics

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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt is hard at work on finishing and publishing the next novel in the Pride's Children trilogy, LIMBO. She moved to Davis, California, in 2018.

Follow her on Amazon or at https://PridesChildren.com to be informed when her next story is available.

She is always open to ARC requests - leave a comment at the books' site.

As a writer, she’s published traditionally in short story. She's been featured on Wattpad, where her story Too Late received 66K reads (Prequel to PURGATORY, the story is available at https://prideschildren.com/too-late-p...).

Her debut novel Pride's Children: PURGATORY was named 2021 Best Contemporary novel by Indies Today. A sample is available on GR, and Amazon, and you can read the first chapter on the Pri Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt is hard at work on finishing and publishing the next novel in the Pride's Children trilogy, LIMBO. She moved to Davis, California, in 2018.

Follow her on Amazon or at https://PridesChildren.com to be informed when her next story is available.

She is always open to ARC requests - leave a comment at the books' site.

As a writer, she’s published traditionally in short story. She's been featured on Wattpad, where her story Too Late received 66K reads (Prequel to PURGATORY, the story is available at https://prideschildren.com/too-late-p...).

Her debut novel Pride's Children: PURGATORY was named 2021 Best Contemporary novel by Indies Today. A sample is available on GR, and Amazon, and you can read the first chapter on the Pride's Children site.

A voracious reader since beginning to read at three, she had always intended to write fiction, and, now retired, dedicates her whole life - when not spending time with her husband, family, and new retirement community - to exploring the concepts of integrity in relationships, and the psychological questions of why people do what they do and make the choices they make, including their life partners.

She has devoted the past twenty-some years to learning to write to the standards of the early classics she was steeped in, as she believes that messages in fiction must be surrounded by the utmost in quality entertainment, and that fiction is the most powerful tool we have for slipping through the barriers we put up around our hearts and our minds.

A homeschooler by accident when illness derailed her working life’s plan, her career-long commitment to the sciences aided in the development of three tech-oriented children with a love of language.

She is a former researcher and computational physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Laboratory. She holds a BS in physics from Seattle U., and an MS and PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the U. Wisconsin-Madison. A minor problem with her right eye kept her from fulfilling her ambition as an astronaut.

When she's not writing, you can find her enjoying the community's gardens and pools, or singing.

Discover more about her opinionated opinions and quirky writing methods on her writing blog, at https://liebjabberings.wordpress.com. ...more

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Average rating: 4.29 · 58 ratings · 51 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pride's Children: Purgatory (Pride's Children 1) 4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pride's Children: Netherworld (Pride's Children 2) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Alicia’s Quotes

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

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“You will always be your greatest obstacle to succeed. The day you start truly believing in yourself, you will break that obstacle down.”
― Ana Elise Meyer

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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

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“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O'Connor , Wise Blood

tags: life, place, search

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Apr 16, 2016 05:27AM

I looked at your website and saw all your wonderful positive reviews. Clearly, people love your book. I was frankly jealous. I would take the negative review with a grain of salt. With all those positive reviews people aren't going to pay a lot of attention The second thing is that maybe this is something to think about (whenever someone says something negative about my work, after the first initial hurt I have to say to myself, is there something I have to pay attention to.) I would have bought your book but I thought the Kindle price was a little bit high. thank you for liking my post.

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