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Vali’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Vali’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Vali Benson
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April 2020
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Blood and Silver
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WINNER - 2022 International Book Awards !!!
Proud to announce that "Blood and Silver" by Vali Benson won 1st Place at the 2022 International Book Awards !!!
"Blood and Silver" took home top honors in the Novella category.
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"Blood and Silver" took home top honors in the Novella category.
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| Another triumph from Michelle Moran. Strongly recommended for fans of strong heroines and alt. fiction. | |
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| Another triumph from Michelle Moran. Strongly recommended for fans of strong heroines and alt. fiction. | |
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“There’s the foolish green puppy love that we start out with, then at some later time there’s the common-sense, lukewarm sense of caring that keeps a husband and a wife together. Somewhere in between, there’s that deep love that comes once in a lifetime,”
― Livin' on Jacks and Queens
― Livin' on Jacks and Queens
“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...”
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“Yes, there is a “secret to happiness”—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.”
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
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I want to thank everyone for being so supportive of my first novel, Blood and Silver, now available on Amazon! I sincerely appreciate it.
Love, Vali
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Silver-V...
