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Kate Padilla is a journalist, writer, blogger and book reviewer who operates the blog Blondie Marie and writes for the Spencer Daily Reporter in Spencer, Iowa. Save Me, San Francisco is her first book, though she's tentatively beginning what she hopes to be a novel (also inspired by music). When she's not writing (or reading), she's running, crafting or helping renovate the house she and her husband bought three years ago. She lives in Spencer, Iowa with her husband, their one-year-old son and two pugs. ...more

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WHAT I WISH I KNEW BEFORE I WROTE 'SAVE ME, SAN FRANCISCO'

It has now been almost five years since I published my debut book, a short-story collection titled Save Me, San Francisco. I knew, even when I was publishing it, that this was a "learning experience" book. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. And it showed: to date I have sold under 10 books.

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Harvard Classics Anthology - Complete 51 Volumes: The Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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