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H.N. Oetken

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in Fort Collins, The United States

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Fiction, Thriller, Horror

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Kendare Blake, Ruth Ware, J.K. Rowling, Tom Clancy

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Born and raised along the Front Range in Colorado, Heather discovered her love of writing in Mrs. Girardi's 2nd grade class. She and her friend, Jessica, participated in a "start a story with this line..." spin-wheel activity. The thought of being able to create an entire world, its characters, and their stories, just with her imagination, was so profound and appealing to her that she never stopped writing. In fact, that very summer she began to write and illustrate a series called "The Adventures of Sparkles the Dolphin" on the pink scrap paper her family had laying around the house.

Since then, Heather's affinity for dark, twisted crime and psychological thrillers has been shaped by her life experiences, and so that is what she loves to w ...more

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"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

My close friend, who I met at our medical office job and is now also my editor and agent, let me borrow this book and promised that I would love it. She said it was right down my ally...and she was right!

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I finished it a couple weeks ago and just haven't gotten around to creating a review yet. First of all, this book has some incredible illus Read more of this blog post »

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