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Thomm Quackenbush

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Thomm Quackenbush is an author and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has published four novels in his Night's Dream series (We Shadows, Danse Macabre, Artificial Gods, and Flies to Wanton Boys). He has sold jewelry in Renaissance England, confused as a mad scientist, filed away ten thousand books, and tried to educate the learning disabled, adjudicated, and gifted.

He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. He finds that friends do not enjoy the extremes he goes to in order to research books, as these involve mortuaries and UFO support groups.

He is available for panels and talks about writing, aliens, mysteries, and murder. He is even available for panels on writing mysteries about murderin
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Thomm Quackenbush I got the idea for Artificial Gods because I grew up about an hour away from Pine Bush, New York, where the story is set. Jasmine Woods was a minor ch…moreI got the idea for Artificial Gods because I grew up about an hour away from Pine Bush, New York, where the story is set. Jasmine Woods was a minor character in We Shadows and Danse Macabre, so I thought I would flesh her out a bit more and explore the mystery of the UFO flap that involved Pine Bush. I went to several meetings of the United Friends Observer Society to get material, which definitely helped to shape the story. (less)
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We Shadows (Night's Dream, #1)

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Of Christmas Present

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Shane had already sent her witch friends cell phone pictures of twenty pages from her book. Yet, when they arrived at the riverfront, the three of them pored over the froofy-looking diary anyway, bickering with each other as much as the book. Kit didn't know what they could see there that wasn't in the pictures, but quibbled over the specifics of who wou

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Entirely marvelous. Never have I been so sympathetic toward something alien, and Tchaikovsky sneaked that conclusion in so gradually that I had to sit back a moment after the trap was sprung, contemplate it, call him a bastard, and then figure out ex ...more
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The measure of a book like this is not that one comes away believing the author's conjecture— I do not know that I do—but that the ride to the destination is entertaining and the thoroughness of the research is unimpeachable. With a subject like the ...more
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“She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration of her emotion, some way to be in control of a body that could toss her about with seizures. It was borderline artistic to mark her body, chiaroscuro designs in blood. Dying is the last thing she would want, like any healthy organism. A little pain, a small invoked sting trailing her arm, brought her much closer to grounded when she could not keep her head from racing, her thoughts from consuming her with obsession. An ounce of liquid weight loss and she could go back to being herself again. Usually.”
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“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.”
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“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl's kisses are deliberate and polished. When she kisses me - when I kiss her - she doesn't want me. She has me and knows it.”
Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

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“I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.”
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“I think it simply comes down to fantasy being the language I speak. While I cannot get into epic sword and sorcery, I see the world as having the potential to be slightly off-kilter. I have run into people who do not quite seem human – though of course they are – and have been privy to coincidences that almost make me believe in magic. Fantasy is sometimes just asking yourself, “Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?”
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“Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.”
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“College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.”
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“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”
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