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Marcy Kennedy

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Marcy Kennedy is a science fiction and fantasy author who believes there's always hope. Sometimes you just have to dig a little harder to find it. In a world that can be dark and brutal and unfair, hope is one of our most powerful weapons.

She also writes award-winning mysteries under a pen name, but that's a secret. Shhhh...

Marcy lives in Ontario, Canada, with her former Marine husband, Boxer mix, eight cats (all rescues), and budgie. In her free time, she loves playing board games and going for bike rides. ...more

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Average rating: 4.29 · 1,514 ratings · 261 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mastering Showing and Telling in Your Fiction (Busy Writer's Guides, #4) 4.39 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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
	Deep Point of View (Busy Writer's Guides, #9) 4.58 avg rating — 217 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
	How to Write Dialogue (Busy Writer's Guides, #3) 4.27 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2013 — 6 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
	Grammar for Fiction Writers (Busy Writer's Guides, #5) by Marcy Kennedy (Goodreads Author), Chris Saylor 4.25 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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
	Internal Dialogue (Busy Writer's Guides, #7) 4.40 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2015 — 5 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
	Strong Female Characters (Busy Writer's Guides, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 145 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
	Description (Busy Writer's Guides, #10) 4.43 avg rating — 86 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
	Point of View in Fiction (Busy Writer's Guides Book #8) 4.52 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	How to Write Faster (Busy Writer's Guides, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 85 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
	Fiction Genres (Busy Writer's Guides #11) 4.22 avg rating — 49 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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Resisting the Fall (Falling for Autumn)

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Counterfeit Forgiveness: How a Modern Myth Betrays Victims, Protects Abusers, and Corrupts the Gospel

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Skyward (Skyward, #1)

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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
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message 2: by Debbie

Feb 22, 2013 03:45PM

Hi Marcy. Thanks for the friendship. Good to see you on Goodreads. :)

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message 1: by Monique

May 03, 2012 06:17AM

Hi Marcy -
Thanks for being my GR friend!
I am moderator of a new private group here on GR, a writing group mainly. I was wondering if you could suggest any excellent fundamental craft bks that I could propose to the grp? Our first bk is Stephen King's "On Writing."
We have people writing in all types of genres, including poetry.

Also, A far as group guidelines in terms of respect for other members and using pics, not images, etc., do you have any ideas what would be a couple of other good guidelines for the group? I didn't know if you had personal experience in terms of groups.

I look forward to perusing your bookshelf. I am still adding - and will be for a while!

thanks & take care -
Monique

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