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Shari Lopatin

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Fiction, Contemporary, Science Fiction

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Shari Lopatin writes stories that matter. An award-winning journalist in her earlier years, she now writes novels that tie into modern-day social issues, serialized fiction, short stories, personal and political essays, and poetry. Over the course of her seventeen-plus year career, Shari has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, public relations professional, social media manager, and earned the title of “Cat Mom of the Year.” She published her debut novel, The Apollo Illusion, in 2018 and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where she was born and raised. Read more of Shari's work and be the first to learn about new books by signing up for Shari’s newsletter as either a free or paid subscriber: sharilopatin.substack.com.
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	The Apollo Illusion 4.28 avg rating — 57 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
	The Condemned: A memoir told through selected early works of short stories, essays, and poetry 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Stone from HELL: An 'Apollo Illusion' Short Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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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	The Common Writer’s Guide to Self-Publishing: Demystifying the business side of setting up and running your own publishing company 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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How Babies and Tablets Inspired My Debut Dystopian Novel

Babies and tablets. The rise of propaganda. Rosh Hashanah dinner. These were a few of the factors that led to the inspiration behind my debut novel, The Apollo Illusion.

I love reading the story behind the story from my favorite authors, like Margaret Atwood or Junot Diaz. So when last year, a fellow author asked me to write a guest blog post on what inspired MY first book, I couldn’t resist. Enou Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 13, 2019 10:52 • Tags: author-story, debut-novel, dystopia, dystopian-fiction, indie-author, science-fiction, self-publishing, the-apollo-illusion, young-adult

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“I sometimes forget; the word "God" makes humans do crazy things.”
― Shari Lopatin, The Condemned: A memoir told through selected early works of short stories, essays, and poetry

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“My life is a war, and I am the enemy. Fighting myself in this never-ending battle, I will not win. nor lose”
― Shari Lopatin, The Condemned: A memoir told through selected early works of short stories, essays, and poetry

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“It's amazing how small a family can become”
― Shari Lopatin, The Condemned: A memoir told through selected early works of short stories, essays, and poetry

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“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

tags: indian, literary-fiction, native-american-literature

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“We made powwows because we needed a place to be together. Something intertribal, something old, something to make us money, something we could work toward, for our jewelry, our songs, our dances, our drum.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

tags: american-culture, indian, literary, native-american

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“You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

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“This isn't a story about war. It's about ruin.”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

tags: dystopia, science-fiction, war

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“What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?”
― Omar El Akkad, American War

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