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Carma Chan

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in Los Angeles, The United States
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Influences

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Most often, readers ask, "Who influenced you?"

I share Dr. King's dream.

Additionally, you can see my bookshelves here where I review and rate every book I remember reading.

Besides the Saardu series, which is my way of explaining death and the circle of life, I write of personal pain and overcoming. For example, "10 Most Annoying Things People Say to NICU Parents (...when they're only trying to help!)" Grief is universal, but each of us enters and exits it in our own ways.

My greatest literary influences are Professor Richard Walter, who teaches Advanced Screenwriting for MFA students at the UCLA film school. He taught me everything I needed to know about the ancient art of storytelling. The American poet, E.E. Cummings (don't lecture me abo
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Carma Chan The absurd, surreal, metaphysical and fractured destiny of why my LDS mother named me Carma
Carma Chan I was too busy writing this summer. 42 Shades of Blush is the culmination of 3 years of research, 15 years of corresponding with the artist/poet Alexa…moreI was too busy writing this summer. 42 Shades of Blush is the culmination of 3 years of research, 15 years of corresponding with the artist/poet Alexandre Nodopaka, whose legacy I intend to preserve with this new book. He and I were very busy over the summer stitching together chapters and making sure there is never a dull moment!(less)
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Saardu: The Adventure Begins

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10 Most Annoying Things Peo...

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Saardu 4

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1,017 Randomly Beautiful Mo...

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Saardu 3: Deja Vu

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Mothers and Sons: How to Ra...

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B is for Balloonist (Gramma...

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Polydimensional Honeymooners

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Cerebus ~ Under the Aardvar...

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Cerebus Film: An Epic Journey

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My Gagne Ancestry

 

My 8th Great Grandfather, Louis Gagne. Page photographed courtesy of Ancestors Park historical archives
located near the Sainte-Famille Church, Île-d'Orléans, Quebec
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I like to say, "If you don't know how to pronounce Gagne, think champagne."

Not that it is pronounced "gain", but that is its essence. Think champagne means think French. But as you can see, there have been many variations of m

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A collaboration to survive the boredom of being homebound during COVID.
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Albert Loved Sylvia by Carma Gagne Chan
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Dedicated to the memory of the grandparents I only know through stories, historical records, and photographs, Albert Gagne and Sylvia Dorothy Tietjen. Beautiful. Tragic. Inspirational.
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“Never hate, mon petit.”
― Carma Chan, Saardu: The Adventure Begins

“It's time for a whole new myth!”
― Carma Chan, SAARDU | The Complete Series

“Telepathy is yummy, much in the way that a good horror story was.”
― Carma Chan

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
― Pauline Kael

“Things do not change; we change.”
― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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