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Pauline J. Alama

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My quest fantasy The Eye of Night was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. I've published numerous short stories in anthologies such as Sword & Sorceress 30, It's Come to Our Attention, Witch High, Trafficking in Magic: Magicking in Traffic and magazines such as www.abyssapexzine.com and Fantasy Scroll.

For a wild, misguided time in my life, I thought I would be an English professor, so I spent some time in Rochester, New York learning medieval literature and how to get around in heaps of snow. After getting a Ph.D. without a J.O.B., I returned to my native New Jersey, where I write grant proposals for nonprofit agencies and obey the whims of my feline overlords.

Other interests include playing guitar and saving the world. Not doing ...more

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	Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXIII by Elisabeth Waters (Editor / Contributor), Dave Smeds (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Marian Allen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 2008 — 4 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
	Sword And Sorceress XVIII by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Editor / Contributor), Elisabeth Waters (Contributor), Diana L. Paxson (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2001	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
	Sword and Sorceress XIX by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Editor), Elisabeth Waters, Laura J. Underwood (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2002 — 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 Eye of Night: A Novel 3.85 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2002 — 4 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
	Sword and Sorceress 25 by Elisabeth Waters (Editor/Contributor), Dave Smeds (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jonathan Shipley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2010 — 4 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
	Witch High by Denise Little (Editor), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Bill McCay (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2008 — 4 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
	Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress Xxvi by Elisabeth Waters, Pauline J. Alama (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David L. Burkhead (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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
	Sword and Sorceress XXVII by Elisabeth Waters (Editor), Pauline J. Alama (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michael H. Payne (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.26 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2012 — 4 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
	Sword and Sorceress 30 by Elisabeth Waters (Editor), Pauline J. Alama (Goodreads Author), G. Scott Huggins (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Sword & Sorceress 31 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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Pauline’s Quotes

“I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy

tags: sleep

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“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

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“After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Fyrdraaca

tags: fantasy, history

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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert

tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish

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