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Dixie Tenny

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in Omaha, Nebraska, The United States
May 25

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Eleanor Cameron

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The first version of Call the Darkness Down was written because I ran out of books to read about King Arthur when I was a young teenager. Originally, it was a story about descendants of Arthurian characters in present day who have to battle ancient forces of evil. The manuscript of the book helped me win a National Council of Teachers of English award when I was a high school senior. After I sent the book to a local publisher the following year, I received a wonderful rejection letter; so encouraging and positive, but pointing out that the book shouldn't take place in the UK if I hadn't actually spent enough time there to create a real feeling of that location in my story. So I applied to Trinity College in Carmarthen, Wales, and spent an a ...more

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3-1/2 stars rounded up. I enjoyed this collection of breakups through history that were "among the worst" for a wide variety of reasons: a couple of sad ones, but mostly either bizarre or had interesting results. It's very informally written, sort of ...more
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I'm not easily offended, but I had to stop reading about halfway through because of the attitudes toward sexuality - considering that the protagonist was an 11-year-old girl. To say this story was not for me is an understatement. ...more
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