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Ginger Moran

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Fiction, Mystery, Memoir

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A published and award-winning writer, teacher, and single mother of two boys, my areas of expertise are in nonfiction and fiction writing, editing, and creative survival.

I have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. I have published in salon.com, Oxford American, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other journals and magazines.

My first novel, The Algebra of Snow, was nominated for a Pushcart Editor’s Choice Award and published in 2012. I am a certified Martha Beck Life Coach and KMCC Creativity Coach and am a graduate of the National Speakers Association Academy.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 36 ratings · 9 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Algebra of Snow: A Bedtime Story for My Mother 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	American Queen: An Agatha Wells Novel (Moran's Literary Mysteries Volumes 1-3 Book 3) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 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
	The Body of Summer (Moran's Literary Mysteries Volumes 1-3 Book 2) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 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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What is a book?

I am re-watching Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, one of the greatest mysteries ever written and it has inspired me to think about what makes a great book great. A simple way of looking at a book is that it is always a mystery. The book begins with a question (who killed so [...]

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