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Amelia Smith

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Thanks to my grandmother, Nancy Woollcott Smith, I started out in life with the delusion that writing was a thing grown-ups did. Becoming a writer seemed almost as realistic an ambition as becoming an accountant, though less lucrative. That delusion led me to a couple of decades of irregular and mostly profitless work, but it's also kept me going.

In high school I wrote two novels with a friend. We passed chapters back and forth in between classes. They were written on paper, the first book long-hand, the second on computer. That was before the internet. During the fall and winter after I graduated from college, I wrote a novella/poetry collection, still unpublishable or at least unmarketable. I sent it to about a half dozen agents and colle ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 215 ratings · 83 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Scrapplings: Children of the Dragons (Anamat #1) 3.55 avg rating — 74 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
	Scandal's Heiress 3.52 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2013 — 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 Defenders' Apprentice (Anamat #3) 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 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
	Priestess of the Dragons' Temple (Anamat #2) 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Turncoat Prince (Anamat, #4) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 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
	Eddystone Light really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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
	Spirits in the Hills (Anamat #2.5) 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016	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
	Chronicles of the Last Days (Anamat #5) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 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
	Scandal's Heiress – 2014 ABNA Entry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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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Series by Amelia Smith

Anamat (5 books)
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Dragonsfall (3 books)
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I'm now several books deep into my pop-economics and ecological economics reading, but I'm still catching up on the who's who of economic theories. I learned a lot about economic history in this book as well as the authors thoughts on where we might ...more
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Wow. This is such a well-written book, and although I'm familiar with many of the issues, I learned a lot, too. The storytelling really carried the message well, from ancient history to the author's computer models of possible futures, with humans be ...more
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I read this book for an online book club. It lost me at the marshmallow test and the bit about subliminal messages (information was presented that has been debunked, and/or there was a LOT of nuance missing) but I persevered and skimmed through the f ...more
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This filled my spot for mediocre books to read while trying to get back to sleep somewhat adequately. The characters were okay, with the villans a bit too flat, and the writing was not great, but the plot was just enough to keep me going. I absolutel ...more
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It's been a couple-few decades since I read much from the Vajrayana Buddhist traditons and reading this was, in a way, like meeting an old friend again and not seeing them at their absolute best. I have meditated in the past -- though not much -- and ...more
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3.5 This is a pretty good business book about what amounts to a luxury brand, but since I'm in an anti-business, anti-extreme-wealth frame of mind right now it didn't exactly hit the spot. It was well-written and generally interesting. There were some ...more
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“Tiada was all colors of the rainbow and of fire. She swooped low, churning the clouds in her wake, making a hard rain fall out over the bay. The dragon’s light warmed Darna, and though Tiada flew back behind the cloud cover, for a moment Darna felt that all was right with the world.”
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“She didn’t want to be one of the dragon-blind, even if it meant a life of comfortable imprisonment. No. Besides, the whole idea was absurd.”
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“Darna felt the breath stolen from her lungs. The prince looked at her. He looked with a kind of desire, as if this kitchen girl had suddenly turned into some piece of iron with mystic powers. Darna could not breathe.”
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“Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
― Nora Ephron

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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King

tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

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