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San Francisco writer Carol (CJ) Verburg is an award-winning playwright, theater director, and author of best-selling books, including the international literature collections Ourselves Among Others and Making Contact.

Carol started her literary career before age one, telling stories to a rapt audience of stuffed animals. In her early teens she wrote her first novel and won her first playwriting award. At Mount Holyoke College she wrote the book and lyrics for the first rock musical, We Could Save the World. Since then she's worked as a cocktail waitress, newspaper proofreader, part-time boat-builder, and (for decades) an in-house and freelance trade and textbook editor and author in Boston and San Francisco.

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	Bookclub-in-a-Box Presents the Discussion Guide for Abraham Verghese's Novel Cutting for Stone: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders by Marilyn Herbert, C.J. Verburg (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2010 — 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 Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories by Carol Verburg, C.J. Verburg (Goodreads Author) 4.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Croaked 3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Silent Night Violent Night by Carol Verburg, C.J. Verburg (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2011 — 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
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	Edward Gorey On Stage: Playwright, Director, Designer, Performer: a Multimedia Memoir 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — 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
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Absolution (Anderson & Costello #1)

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C.J.’s Quotes

“L’amour n’est pas consolation, il est lumière.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

tags: life, love, passion, writing

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“I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.”
― Margery Allingham

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“If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: expectations, fate, the-readiness-is-all

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