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Patricia Dunn

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May 30, 1964

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PATRICIA DUNN (AKA T.M. Dunn) is the author of the novel, "Last Stop on the 6" (Bordighera Press, Nov. 9, 2021) and the young adult novel, "Rebels by Accident" (Sourcebooks Fire, Dec. 2014). Her debut psychological thriller, use the "Her Father's Daughter/T.M Dunn" is coming out with Crooked Lane Books, on July 18, 2023.
Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, The Nation, LA Weekly, and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also been published in the New York Times best-selling anthology, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull); and elsewhere. Dunn has served as the senior director of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, where she holds an MFA in creative writing. She is the co ...more

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Being Indie: A No Holds Barred, Self Publishing Guide for Indie Authors

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“Technology is too crazy for me, but I would be very happy when they make phone that can cook.”
― Patricia Dunn, Rebels by Accident

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“Nothing on this earth lasts forever. Except maybe plastic.”
― Patricia Dunn, Rebels by Accident

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“Jimmy needed a wife who could stand up to his mother, not some sweeter-than-saccharine wimp, a woman who tasted delicious but was carcinogenic”
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“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

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“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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“I got home from the FBi that day, put on my pajamas got a pint of Chunky Monkey, and watched 'The Notebook'. Five times. Everyone left me alone. I suspect they were a little afraid of me.

I went up to my room and listened to Taylor Swift's 'White Horse' on replay, knowing she was the only person in the world who could relate.”
― Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit