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Lisa A. Nicholas

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A longtime reader (and former literature professor), I'm spending more time as an editor and writer these days -- working on the kinds of things I would like to read myself.

Right now I'm working on a murder mystery set in Edwardian England, and a series of reprint editions of great and merely good books from the 19th and early 20th centuries -- but only when I can squeeze in some time when I'm not helping other authors through my editing service, Mitey Editing. ...more

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Cast Into the Deep Sea of Stars, my work-in-progress

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with for my beta readers.I've taken a long holiday from blogging while I labored over draft 3 of my science fiction novel, Cast into the Deep Sea of Stars , which I'll be publishing under the pen name Kit Pascoe. I've sent the draft out to beta readers, played around with cover concepts (the accompanying illustration is my own, which will NOT be the cover of the p Read more of this blog post »

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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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“The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

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“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.

There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.

There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

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