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Kennedy Cole

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Kennedy Cole is a speculative author with a BFA in Creative Writing and a Certificate in Publishing. Born in North Carolina, she lives by the beach with her partner and enjoys playing games, puzzling, sipping matcha, and collecting tattoos. Her creative portfolio includes an array of published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction with Oakland Arts Review, Carolina Muse, Second Story Journal, and others. There Used to Be People Here is her first novel.

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There Used to Be People Here

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

by V.E. Schwab

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Thank you so much to Tor and NetGalley for allowing me to read this amazing book well in advance!! Taylor, you write like a superstar. This story was so well crafted and gorily executed in a way that I’m convinced no other writer could tell it. Lacie ...more
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