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Eric J. Juneau

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Eric Juneau is a software engineer living in Minnesota with his wife and two daughters. His hobbies are writing, video games, reading, and eating as much barbecue as he can find. His writing philosophy is "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." (G.K. Chesterson)

He blogs somewhat regularly about his quest to become a 'capital-A' Author at http://ericjuneaubooks.com.
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Eric J. Juneau I try to treat writer's block as an illusion. At the top of each first draft I write, in bold, "I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO WRITE BADLY". This keeps me m…moreI try to treat writer's block as an illusion. At the top of each first draft I write, in bold, "I GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO WRITE BADLY". This keeps me moving forward on the manuscript, because I have the knowledge I can always "fix it in post".(less)
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The Books I Read: July – August 2026

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

So this book is like a combination of The Grapes of Wrath and The Odyssey, but in Minnesota 1932. This tripped me up because I kept looking for one-to-one parallels, which distracts from the reading experience. The main character is named “Odie” and they do encounter a man with one eye, but these kids’ journey doesn’t mirror Odysseus’s journey like “Epic: Th

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