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Thomm Quackenbush

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Thomm Quackenbush is an author and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has published four novels in his Night's Dream series (We Shadows, Danse Macabre, Artificial Gods, and Flies to Wanton Boys). He has sold jewelry in Renaissance England, confused as a mad scientist, filed away ten thousand books, and tried to educate the learning disabled, adjudicated, and gifted.

He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. He finds that friends do not enjoy the extremes he goes to in order to research books, as these involve mortuaries and UFO support groups.

He is available for panels and talks about writing, aliens, mysteries, and murder. He is even available for panels on writing mysteries about murderin
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Thomm Quackenbush I got the idea for Artificial Gods because I grew up about an hour away from Pine Bush, New York, where the story is set. Jasmine Woods was a minor ch…m´Ç°ù±ðI got the idea for Artificial Gods because I grew up about an hour away from Pine Bush, New York, where the story is set. Jasmine Woods was a minor character in We Shadows and Danse Macabre, so I thought I would flesh her out a bit more and explore the mystery of the UFO flap that involved Pine Bush. I went to several meetings of the United Friends Observer Society to get material, which definitely helped to shape the story. (less)
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We Shadows (Night's Dream, #1)

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Dear Satan

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Of Christmas Present

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Admire It Intensely: Janice Chandler

Janice Chandler

Of all the artists in my life, I have known Janice Chandler the longest, close to half a century--a fact I imagine faintly pains us both. Even when she was tiny, she had an ear for music, and the instinct to make sure everyone knew it. She was a born talent.

It's not everyone who can entrance bleachers of middle-aged country fans and an auditorium of shrieking

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This is about all one could want of popsci: silly, compelling, well-written, and with solid science behind it. The pacing is just about perfect for the subject matter. An excellent nightstand read.
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The kindest thing I can say is that this reads like a freshman comp project by an edgelord.

The end acknowledges that The Author is trying to ape practiced writers without fully understanding why they wrote as they did. This is a fantastic exercise f
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Thomm Quackenbush is 50% done with THE AUTHOR by The Author: There are elements of a good novel in here. The author (or The Author) just doesn't seem to understand how to explore them, and may have eschewed a strong editor who would have beaten this into shape by cutting much of it.

Slurs and idle misogyny are played out.
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
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Did no one tell me the book about the moon turning to cheese would make me cry several times, get chills, and look at my spouse and say, "I love you"? I feel someone ought to have.

This was a fantastic book. Scalzi caught me completely by surprise by
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I received a free copy from Netgalley.

This is one of the least enjoyable books in the genre I have read. It is like a combination of poorly translated Wikipedia articles and ChatGPT. More than once, Kaur writes, "The dictionary defines..." She resta
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“She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration of her emotion, some way to be in control of a body that could toss her about with seizures. It was borderline artistic to mark her body, chiaroscuro designs in blood. Dying is the last thing she would want, like any healthy organism. A little pain, a small invoked sting trailing her arm, brought her much closer to grounded when she could not keep her head from racing, her thoughts from consuming her with obsession. An ounce of liquid weight loss and she could go back to being herself again. Usually.”
Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre

“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.”
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“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl's kisses are deliberate and polished. When she kisses me - when I kiss her - she doesn't want me. She has me and knows it.”
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“I missed you,â€� she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.”
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“I think it simply comes down to fantasy being the language I speak. While I cannot get into epic sword and sorcery, I see the world as having the potential to be slightly off-kilter. I have run into people who do not quite seem human â€� though of course they are â€� and have been privy to coincidences that almost make me believe in magic. Fantasy is sometimes just asking yourself, “Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?”
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“Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.”
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“College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.”
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“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”
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