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Helen O'Reilly

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I had to wait until both my parents were dead, both my marriages were over, and all my children were too old to be traumatized by anything I could do in order to write my first novel for adults: Spunk--a post-apocalyptic, dystopian, urban fantasy about an Amazonian world and the woman who dares to defy its authority.

As Helen H. Moore I've sold thousands of books for children and educators, for such publishers as Scholastic, Mondo, and Central Recovery Press, but this new venture required a new pen-name: Helen O'Reilly.
I'm branching out into self-publishing and self-actualizing simultaneously. As the traditional publishing industry morphs, self-publishing has lost its stigma; it's no longer vanity publishing; it's indie publishing: this is
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review: A Great Review from Publishers Weekly (PW Select)!

I am over the moon with happiness at this lovely brief review from PW Select!




"O'Reilly delivers a fascinating novel about a group of women and girls who, in postapocalyptic New York City, belong to an Amazonian society that believes men are no longer a necessity in the world. In an effort to survive, the women—who live in a forest that now covers Manhattan—capture men to perpetuate their community

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