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Jay Vaughn lives in sunny Seattle, a clean, progressive city that is way too expensive for a writer’s income. Therefore, Jay holds down a full-time, computer-industry day job, but writing is her passion. It’s a hobby-gone-wild, so much so that her teenage kids accuse her of being an addict.

Jay carries her laptop everywhere and can often be seen combining other favorite activities with writing. For example, you can find Jay sitting at a small table in the back of the gay bar around the corner from her house, drinking wine and writing. Or waking up early while camping, dragging out the laptop, and writing. Or writing in the truck on the way to and from concerts, ski-trips, visits to relatives ... wherever.

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Another book where the ebook is only available from Amazon. Very frustrating! My eyesight is such that I can't comfortably read print books and I dislike Kindle so much that I refuse to use it as my reading library. I used to be able to buy (grudging ...more
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***** I'm not so much a fan of vampire novels, but his one had a sci-fi twist that was right up my alley. Liam is a vampire who had been cast out of the upper world for taking a human lover. He barely survives the Gutter, and throughout his struggles ...more
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