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Joseph Macchiusi

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Born

in Canada

Website

http://josephmacchiusi.com

Genre

Mysteries & Thrillers, Horror, Speculative Fiction

Influences

Philip Kerr, Len Deighton, Irvine Welsh, Thomas Harris, J.R.R. Tolkien ...more

Member Since

October 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/josephmacchiusi

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My previous online publications include two short stories, “Of Smelly Toilets and Wet Cheese” and “Triage”. Another story, “The Pythagorean Theorem” was short-listed for the 2006 CBC Literary Awards and The Writers’ Union of Canada 2010 Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers. “The Perseids” also made this short list.

My current obsessions include Motorhead, the experiences of frontline soldiers during the First World War, and the pathological psychology of Ajax Quire. Quire is the hero of another (soon-to-be-published) Macchiusi novel, Lurking in Plain Sight. I am currently at work on the The Prion File, which is the second of the Quire thrillers; and The Betelgeuse Shaman, the second book of the Betelgeuse Chronicles.

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The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923, aka “The Divine Sarah”) was one of the most famous figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She became an international celebrity even before movies were popular entertainment. When the Paris Universal Exposition opened in April 1900, a gigantic statue modeled after Bernhardt decorated the ‘Triumphal Gateway’ entrance arch in the Place de la

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