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Emily is a neurodivergent author, mom, gamer, and avid reader. Originally hailing from Logan, Utah, she’s since followed her husband around the country for the U.S. Air Force, finally settling in Northern California. She has a MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Professional and Creative Writing from Central Washington University. Her ultimate goal is to become a library-haunting ghost so she can finally read every book in her to-be-read pile.

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Good Morning, Dinah

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“Nature is cruel but we don't have to be”
― Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's

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“Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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“Literature offers us feelings for which we do not have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, condone, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve; for even good feelings—intimacy, power, speed, drunkenness, passion—have consequences, and powerful feelings may risk powerful consequences”
― Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide to Narrative Craft

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