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Alli Martin

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Alli is a writer, editor, film lover, grammarian, reader, and nerd. She loves most things sci-fi and fantasy, and is currently focused on robots, time travel, alternate history, and steampunk. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida and balances her writing career with freelance editing and writing.

She spoils her cat, writes at theme parks, and cheers on writers within her writing groups. Occasionally she slows down enough to sleep.

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The Write Life: Writing Is Struggle

Writing has been extremely difficult this month. I’m sure many writers are feeling the same way I am. It’s been hard to focus and harder not to despair. And as the month wore on—and maybe you started processing your grief and frustration—here come the holidays to serve up more distraction and stress! But the thing is it’s not actually too different from other writing times because, as we all know,

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Dreams of Steam II: Brass and Bolts
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Kimberly Richardson (Editor),

Len Berry (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

H. David Blalock (Goodreads Author) (Contributor)

4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions

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The London Séance Society

by Sarah Penner (Goodreads Author)

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The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

by Simon Baron-Cohen

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The Babysitters Coven (The Babysitters Coven, #1)

by Kate Williams (Goodreads Author)

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