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Mandi Hidalgo

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Born

in Church Point, The United States

May 27, 1982

Website

https://www.mandimonster.com/

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Genre

Poetry, Art

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Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, Neil Gaiman, Mary Shelley

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Mandi "Monster" Hidalgo is a poet and artist from a small town in Louisiana. She started drawing as soon as she could hold a pencil. She started writing poetry at 9 years old. She dabbles in many arts and constantly strives to be as creative as possible. Art is in her veins, poetry is in her brain, and she wants to share all her ideas and creativity with you. ...more

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Hello, boils and ghouls! It's your neighborhood word witch here just stopping by to introduce myself...

I am a poet and artist in Church Point, Louisiana. I began writing when I was just nine years old, and I had my first poem featured in the Amherst Society's American Poetry Annual anthology in 1996.

I put writing aside for several years, focusing more on art. I was featured in several local art sh Read more of this blog post »

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Death and the Sisters (A Mary Shelley Mystery, #1)

by Heather Redmond (Goodreads Author)

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This is a pretty cool reimagining of Frankenstein. I love the whole concept of replacing parts with clockwork. Very, very cool.
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This was a solid sequel to Frankenstein. There are certainly some things I would have done differently, but it was a good story overall. It was a slow start, but so was Frankenstein so that felt appropriate.
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