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G.M. Baker

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Born in England to a teamster's son and a coal miner's daughter, G. M. (Mark) Baker now lives in Nova Scotia with his wife, no dogs, no horses, and no chickens. He prefers driving to flying, desert vistas to pointy trees, and quiet towns to bustling cities. As a reader and as a writer, he does not believe in confining himself to one genre. He writes about kind abbesses and melancholy kings, about elf maidens and ship wreckers and shy falconers, about great beauties and their plain sisters, about sinners and saints and ordinary eccentrics. In his newsletter Stories All the Way Down, he discusses history, literature, the nature of story, and how not to market a novel.

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	The Wistful and the Good 4.26 avg rating — 19 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
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	St. Agnes and the Selkie (Cuthbert's People #2) 4.50 avg rating — 6 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
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The Pilgrim's Progress and the Hero's Journey

The Hero’s Journey has dominated our thinking about story since George Lucas took the idea put forth by Christopher Vogler and turned it into a little movie called Star Wars. I think it is fair to say that since then, the Hero’s Journey model of story and its derivatives have dominated popular fiction, particularly in fantasy.

The Hero’s Journey is a model derived from a study of world mythologies

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Streets Of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)

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“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history”
― Cardinal Francis George

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