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Chad Coenson

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in Orlando, FL, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Humor

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Chad Coenson is a practitioner of lingual alchemy and the award winning author of the novel Me and Bobby McGee. He was born in Orlando, FL, but he can barely remember that and pretty much spent most of the years following his birth in a nomadic state of perpetual motion until finally finding a home in the Pacific Northwest with son and a dog named "Bowski". Chad has a degree in creative writing from the University of Arizona and spends his time “trying” not to take life too seriously. In addition to speculative fiction and satire, Chad's literary passions include poetry and lyricism through which he has had the opportunity to collaborate with several talented musicians, including the vocalist John Bisaha. Coenson has also appeared on the OP ...more

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	Me and Bobby McGee by Chad Coenson (Goodreads Author), E. Cobb Holzer (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2010 — 6 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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Me and Bobby McGee - SILVER MEDAL
Best Regional Fiction in the West-Pacifc (CA, OR, WA, AK, HI)

2011 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS

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The Lost Realms (Earth Chronicles, #4)

by Zecharia Sitchin

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The Gnostic Bible

by Willis Barnstone

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Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race

by Michael A. Cremo

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“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: insanity, inspiration

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“The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of insanity that soon he will be insane again and there is a world there more interesting than his own.”
― Norman Mailer, An American Dream

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“What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: truth

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