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My older books are published under the name D.J. Natelson

Some writers talk about discovering their passion, but the truth is that I’ve always been a writer. Even when I had plans to have other careers, writing was an unquestioning part of it. Working full time, I wrote. In school and at university, I wrote. Until the day I die, I will write.

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	Game of Kings by Anthea Carson (Goodreads Author), D.J. Natelson, Deborah J. Natelson (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2014	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
	Bargaining Power (Power Trips, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2019 — 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 Land of the Purple Ring 4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — 3 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
	Logic's Emporium of Stolen Memories by D.J. Natelson, Deborah J. Natelson (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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 Midnight Files 4.38 avg rating — 8 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
	Swallowgate by D.J. Natelson, Deborah J. Natelson (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Wizard: Deceased by D.J. Natelson, Deborah J. Natelson (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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 Fifth Tunnel by D.J. Natelson, Deborah J. Natelson (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Format Your Paperback & E-Book: Using Only Microsoft Word (Ex Libris Thinklings Books Book 2) 4.50 avg rating — 4 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
	The Day the Exclamation Marks Came: And Other Stories and Poems by D.J. Natelson, Deborah J. Natelson (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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

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The Midnight Files returns!

Two years after the end of Amazon's Kindle Vella serial novel format, The Midnight Files is finally being published by Thinklings Books as e-book, paperback, and hardback. Book One, The First Partner, will be coming this October and the other two books in Octobers 2027 and 2028.

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H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)

by H.P. Lovecraft

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Der Bücherdrache (Zamonien, #9)

by Walter Moers

bookshelves: currently-reading, adventure, alternate-universe-fantasy, high-fantasy

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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a Prose Rendering: A Text-Faithful Translation of the 1590s Epic Poem

by Rebecca K. Reynolds

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PROS: It's very readable and, when I compare it to the original, seems quite accurate. Overall, it's a good adaptation.

CONS: The reason it has four stars instead of five is because of a series of minor a ...more "

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