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Jennifer deBie

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Jennifer deBie is a native Texan living in Ireland where she earned an MA in Creative Writing from University College Cork in 2017 and just finished a PhD in Mary Shelley. She has been widely published in the US and abroad, with works appearing in anthologies by Raven Chronicles Press, PactPress, Kallisto Gaia Press, and Manawaker Studios, and in journals like For Women Who Roar and True Chili. When not reading, writing, or teaching, Jennifer enjoys typical millennial pastimes like eating brunch and neglecting her blog, where infrequent updates on her life and writing can be found.

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Jennifer deBie It's the closest thing to magic we're ever going to get. If taking people from all across the earth into a world of my own making with nothing more th…moreIt's the closest thing to magic we're ever going to get. If taking people from all across the earth into a world of my own making with nothing more than paper and ink isn't magic in the purest, truest sense of the world, I don't know what is.(less)
Jennifer deBie How about a micropoem instead?

Ghostship
And when you escape, surface, drown in dark air,
as your crew cries and dies on oil-slick waves,
scream for a res…more
How about a micropoem instead?

Ghostship
And when you escape, surface, drown in dark air,
as your crew cries and dies on oil-slick waves,
scream for a rescue that isn't coming...
We'll be there, messmate,
we always need sailors.(less)
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I am lucky… in a lot of ways, many of which I’ve talked about here, but today I’m going to tell you that I am lucky to be a mildly professional book talker.

Before I became what I am today, I was an enthusiastic amateur book talker, and then I went to school and became an educated book talker (able to use key words and tricky phrases like Proustian, liminal spaces, and bathos with aplomb), and now

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A man, a mission, a war that drug on far, far too long. Told with panache and compassion towards the soldiers stuck in a bad situation, Donohue has an opinion and he's not shy about it. He thought the boys overseas deserved to know that all of Americ ...more
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A fun twist on an old, and not as well known fairytale. Craig's grasp of atmosphere, and the strange ways that love and devotion can warp when it comes to family, gods, and country are truly the hallmarks of a great storyteller. As a protagonist, Haz ...more
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Not set in the same world as Mandanna's 202 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, but written with exactly the same tenderness, A Witches Guide to Magical Innkeeping is another lovely tale spun well.

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One that I started and stopped a few times - some fun recountings of various fraudsters across history, I just think that the bite sized histories made it too easy for me to put down and walk away from because each felt complete in and of itself.

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The Thursday Murder Club never disappoint. I'm currently reading a very different kind of British murder-mystery series that has diminishing returns, so it's nice to know that there are some series that can just keep getting better.

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“Monsters are the patron saints of otherness.”
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“I'm not sure if you eat meat these days, but if you do, I hope you leave clean bones, get your money's worth.”
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“His Majesty’s Government does employ the oddest people at times, sir. They have, after all, employed you.”
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“-You see, I have it within me still,” you said, and opened your pocket and pulled out a piece of sheet music, the black calligraphy in its careful, blocky dots making the whole thing look like paving stones on a log road. The calligraphy went on and on, and you pulled the entire song out from your skin where you’d kept it, just in case your friend wanted to see it again.”
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