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Danae Samson

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Born

in The United States

Website

http://www.mediaaria-cdm.co.uk/

Genre

Horror, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Stephen King
Ernest Hemingway
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Shelly
Willam Shakespea ...more

Member Since

March 2008

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Born in Southern California and educated in Portland, Oregon, Danae Samson’s debut novel, Lament Hill, is a testament to her life on the west coast. Samson received her Bachelors and Masters degree from Portland State University and went on to teach English at four colleges in California and Washington. In 2011, Samson decided to pursue her writing full time and signed with Media Aria CDM in the spring of that year. In addition to the release of Lament Hill, Media Aria CDM will publish Samson’s second novel, Burn: The Casual Slaughters of Simon Green in 2013. Samson has recently finished her third novel, also a work of fiction, and has begun the construction of a fourth manuscript. Samson currently lives in Carlsbad, California.

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Danae Samson's Blog: Writing Journal

Time to Break Up

I've heard other writers talk about it, but I have never experienced it first hand. Naturally, when the idea that my current manuscript may not be working and that I should consider shelfing it and starting anew came into light as a distinct possibility, I felt rather sad. I love this story and have muscled through it for over a hundred pages. How can it be over? What about all the time and energy Read more of this blog post »

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Danae’s Quotes

“But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.”
― Stephen King

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: words

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“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

tags: paperlessism, thoughtlessness

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“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”
― John Steinbeck

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