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poetlore
Novel: The Pleasure Palace
Genre: Chick Lit
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About poetlore

Location: Felton, California

Home Region:
USA :: California :: South Bay

Age:50

Website: http://www.stregastories.blogspot.com

Favorite novels: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Bleak House, In Cold Blood, Dracula, Frankenstein, Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Remains of the Day, The English Patient, The Complete Works of William Blake (not a novel, but so what?)

Favorite writers: Truman Capote, William Blake, Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, the Bronte sisters, Bram Stoker, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Franz Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Joseph Campbell, Edwidge Danticat, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Chitra Divakaruni, Sharon Olds, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman

Favorite music: varies, but no death metal

Non-noveling interests: African dance, Haitian dance, bellydance, fiber arts

Joined: June 3, 2009

This Year: Official Participant

NaNoWriMo History:

NaNoWriMo posts: 2

NaNoWriMo buddies: 3

 

Brief Author Bio:

I am a lecturer in English and creative writing, and have been in the teaching profession for thirty years. My work has been published in many literary magazines over the past twenty years, and I have won several writing awards for my fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most notably from the Academy of American Poets. The most notable literary magazine I have been in is likely Poetry.

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