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Melissa Embry

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in Morgan City, Louisiana, The United States

March 07

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Thriller, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

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Melissa Embry is a former award-winning newspaper reporter and city editor for The Longview News-Journal, whose short fiction has appeared in numerous ezines and anthologies.

When not writing, she volunteers at a nonprofit stable providing therapy through horsemanship to children and adults with disabilities.

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	Pulp Modern, Autumn 2011 by Alec Cizak (Goodreads Author), Thomas Pluck, David James Keaton (Goodreads Author) 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Jake's Monthly: Recollection by Jake J. Johnson (Editor), James Wymore (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jessica Knaus 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	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
	Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 022 by Jennifer Lyn Parsons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Megan Patton (Editor), Danielle Perry (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Mystic Signals 6 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	From the Ashes: An Anthology of Elemental Urban Fantasy by Zelda Knight (Goodreads Author), Sandy Parsons (Goodreads Author), Christi Nogle (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Texas writer smackdown: who's queen of the vampires?

We're deep in the spooky season (and I'm not just talking about elections!). So how about about pitting two Texans who write (or wrote) about vampires against each other?

First up, of course, is Anne Rice.

Her Interview with the Vampire will live long as the book that put the blood suckers back on the literary map. Sure, they’d been around for ages, or atleast since Bram Stocker’s late 19th-centur

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“Más vale la gracia de la imperfección que la perfección sin gracia.

Alex Von Wuthenau”
― Melissa Embry

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“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Queen of the South

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“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood

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“he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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“What about the future?"
"We'll talk about the future when it gets here.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Queen of the South

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“You're a writer. Make it up.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

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