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Christopher Hawthorne Moss

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Born

in Mineral County, Nevada, The United States

Website

http://www.shield-eall.com

Genre

Gay and Lesbian, Historical Fiction, History

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Archetypal criticism of literature, gay novels, Ruth Sims, history in ...more

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April 2013

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Kit wrote his first short story when he was seven years old. When summer camp friend Laura and he started their florid medieval saga they called "The Story" Kit became a regular writer, with mostly wry humorous stories written with like-minded friends.

Kit had a stint writing copy for web sites, and he published a nonfiction work in 1991 titles LOVING THE GODDESS WITHIN.

Kit had been participating in a collaborative writing group called Ghostletters on Yahoogroups, at one point starting to rewrite "The Story" from an adult perspective. He realized he had a novel in all these tales and published it as AN INVOLUNTARY KING which he published independently in 2008. It was such a successful experience he decided to make historical novel writing a ...more

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Average rating: 3.6 · 659 ratings · 180 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Taste of Honey by B.G. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anne Regan (Editor), John Amory 3.67 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Closet Capers by Anne Regan (Editor), Mari Donne (Goodreads Author), Andrea Speed (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Beloved Pilgrim by Nan Hawthorne (Goodreads Author), Christopher Hawthorne Moss (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	A Fine Bromance 2.92 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Where My Love Lies Dreaming 3.71 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Beloved Pilgrim 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — 9 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
	Angel Eyes 3.91 avg rating — 11 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
	Time's Rainbow: Writing Ourselves Back into American History (Time's Rainbow Series) by Lori L. Lake, Christopher Hawthorne Moss (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 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
	BY Moss, Christopher Hawthorne ( Author ) [{ Beloved Pilgrim By Moss, Christopher Hawthorne ( Author ) Jan - 23- 2014 ( Paperback ) } ] 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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The Lady Chapel (Owen Archer #2)

by Candace Robb (Goodreads Author)

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Exercise Every Day: 32 Tactics for Building the Exercise Habit (Even If You Hate Working Out)

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Days of Love

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Dreamspinner Press: Anthology: Closet Capers Edited by Anne Regan	5	62	Jul 23, 2013 06:22PM
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“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
― George Washington Carver

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