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Ryan Dunlap

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in Tulsa, OK, The United States

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http://www.fictionsmith.com

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult

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Ryan Dunlap is a storyteller accustomed to weaving tales with twenty-four images per second, and wrote/directed the feature film Greyscale. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is told he should have been born a century ago.

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Average rating: 4.29 · 104 ratings · 20 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wind Merchant (The Wind Merchant, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 61 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
	The Goldfish 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — 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
	The Reclaimer (The Wind Merchant, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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 Elsewhere Knight (The Wind Merchant, #3) 4.88 avg rating — 8 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 Littlest Clockwork by Ryan Dunlap (Goodreads Author), Amber Hezlep (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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
	Fallstreak really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	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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A curated memory.

My memory is kind of terrible.

It is somewhat fitting that the movie I have watched the most in my adulthood is Memento. Lenny’s life was shaped around the things of which he thought worthwhile to remind himself.

Years ago I established a rule for myself: No public negativity on social media.

I don’t always succeed, but posts that make it past the filter usually only live about 20 minutes befo

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Living Room Leadership: A Blueprint for Building a Family Culture of Vision, Growth and Connection

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Live in Grace, Walk in Love: A 365-Day Journey

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The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien

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Ryan’s Quotes

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”
― A.W. Tozer

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“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, the way that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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