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Sophia Martin

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Sophia Martin In 2011 my cousin Isabelle disappeared. The police found her car parked in a remote location near a canal. They found one shoe. They've dredged the ca…moreIn 2011 my cousin Isabelle disappeared. The police found her car parked in a remote location near a canal. They found one shoe. They've dredged the canal and some ground-level water tanks not far off from the site where her car was found. They've combed the woods in the area. They've read her diary and looked at her computer and found she had plans to go on a motorcycle trip a few days after she disappeared. She had just bought a motorcycle helmet. Six different psychics have applied themselves to the case with no results. We will probably never find out what happened to her. That is a mystery I will always wish we could solve--I can't imagine what it does to my aunt, her mother, not knowing what happened to her daughter.

I've thought about addressing it in one of my Veronica books. I'm not sure I ever will, though; I wouldn't want my aunt or any of Isabelle's other loved ones to feel like I was exploiting what happened to her. That's not why I would want to write about it, of course. I'd do it because often my Veronica books are a door to my fantasies--come uppance for vile people in the real world who will never get a real come uppance, that sort of thing. If I wrote about Isabelle in some way, it would be to create a story where the mystery is solved, and she is found. But like I said, I'm not sure I'll ever do that, or if I do, that I'll publish what I write.(less)

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Sophia Martin I actually have about five ideas going right now. I've been working on the third book in my dystopian trilogy, but I don't want to do that one for NaN…moreI actually have about five ideas going right now. I've been working on the third book in my dystopian trilogy, but I don't want to do that one for NaNo because it's not the kind of book I feel I can rush to produce and then rework later--it's much more of a careful-as-you-go book to write. So for NaNo I have to decide which of the rest of the ideas to pursue. I've got some for the next Veronica book as well as some completely new ones. I get my ideas from current events for the Veronica books, usually, and then anything that inspires, angers, or fascinates me tends to find its way into all of my writing.(less)

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	The River and the Roses (Veronica Barry, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011 — 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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	Brave as a Wolf: A Dark New Adult Rejected Mate Fantasy Romance (Blue Crescent Shifters Book 3) 4.37 avg rating — 27 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
	The Fire and the Veil (Veronica Barry #2) 3.78 avg rating — 18 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
	Veronica in Paris (Veronica Barry, #0) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Myadar's Snare (The City Darkens, #1) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013	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 Gamble and the Grave (Veronica Barry Book 4) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	After the Fall (Raud Grima, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 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
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Yep, I'm in a very stuck place right now.

It doesn't help that I've been pretty sick for a week (COVID-19? I don't know? I kinda hope so at this point because if not and I get that next I'm already worn out from this bout). I'm also hormonal so everything feels worse than it is. Disclaimer, I guess.

But none of that changes the fact that I've abandoned another story over 20K words into it (proba Read more of this blog post »

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“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
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