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L.J. McLean

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Born

in Fontana, CA, The United States

Website

http://ljmclean.com/

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

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Jim Butcher, Scott Sigler

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September 2011

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Two things about L.J. McLean: he’s a writer, and he loves technology.

For writing being his escape from reality, he attended one creative writing class in Yucaipa, CA in 2007. First to break his grade school English grudges and research paper phobias, then create the building blocks to his debut post-apocalyptic novel, Mana Pool. He became a lead fiction editor for The Chaffey Review (Vol. 1 and 2), wrote several short stories in and out of NaNoWriMo, and contributed to a few writing-centric websites.

Technology has been his edge. He graduated with honors for his Bachelors in Information Systems in Cybersecurity, specializing in small business network administration, tech support, security and network consultation, etc.

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	From the Den - Seven Stories of a Healer Wizard (Road to Recovery Series Book 1) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Mana Pool (Mana Pool Series) by L.J. McLean (Goodreads Author), Emy Bitner it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 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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New Snippet Story

Hey, folks.

This is just a quick post to say that I published a new Mana Pool Snippets story over at my Royal Road profile.

I haven’t had the chance to announce it here while life got hectic after posting it.

There are a lot of things I want to elaborate behind the scenes. The space station and the characters have been in the planning stages for a long time, almost as long as Ghost Factor’s initi

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