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Erik Mercer

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Erik Mercer was born before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and grew up in a world dominated by shifting loyalties, espionage, and the end of an era. Erik draws upon his own experience, and the memories of old soldiers he knew, to create fantastic worlds and histories on faraway planets - because truth is always stranger than fiction, and far more credible as a novel than as a biography.

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A writer's block is your book telling you, that you shouldn't write this particular scene just yet.

While there is no general solution to the problem that works for everybody, my personal experience is that as an author I never "write a book"--I "write", period. If I can't go on with scene X today, I move somewhere else, knowing that my book will tell me what it wants to do with the missing scene "when it's ready".(less)
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A Night in Amber

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“Heaven's crimson mourns the day. What began in purple, ends in red and gold. The evening retreats to give way to the silence of the night. To rest and rise anew to the virginity of the morning; to ripen again and wither away once more.”
Erik Mercer, A Night in Amber

“A good soldier never leaves his boot-wax out of sight.
With book-wax, you can do everything: light a fire, mold a candle, seal tents, waterproof clothing, repel insects, grease guns, and trade it for tobacco.
A good soldier always knows where his boot-wax is.”
Erik Mercer, A Night in Amber

“We stand on the backs of our forefathers, and live with what they have left us. That doesn't mean we have to repeat the past but we must listen to it.”
Erik Mercer, A Night in Amber

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“We stand on the backs of our forefathers, and live with what they have left us. That doesn't mean we have to repeat the past but we must listen to it.”
Erik Mercer, A Night in Amber

“A good soldier never leaves his boot-wax out of sight.
With book-wax, you can do everything: light a fire, mold a candle, seal tents, waterproof clothing, repel insects, grease guns, and trade it for tobacco.
A good soldier always knows where his boot-wax is.”
Erik Mercer, A Night in Amber

“Heaven's crimson mourns the day. What began in purple, ends in red and gold. The evening retreats to give way to the silence of the night. To rest and rise anew to the virginity of the morning; to ripen again and wither away once more.”
Erik Mercer, A Night in Amber

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