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Genre: Mainstream Fiction
About WritingGasmLocation: Baton Rouge, LA Home Region: Age:30 Website: http://brownstreetpress.com/?page_id=16 Favorite writers: Janet Evanovich, Anne Bishop, Judith Krantz, Mercedes Lackey, Jennifer Crusie Non-noveling interests: Dancing and the Pizzawine Project |
Joined: Octubre 23, 2006 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 9 NaNoWriMo buddies: 11
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Brief Author Bio: Erica Kennedy is a lifelong resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She first discovered her passion for the written word in the fourth grade. She won a writing contest with a story about a talking vegetable garden. The story lacked character development, story structure, and nuance; it all came together, however, when she introduced a very sexy tomato. Years later, Erica graduated from LSU with a degree in secondary education. Today she enjoys reading, rollerblading, and walking with her dog, Dino. She’s been a proud participant of Nanowrimo since 2006, and was the Baton Rouge Municipal Liaison in 2007 and 2008. She is currently working on a new story that is lacking in character development, story structure, and nuance, but has faith that once she introduces another sexy tomato, everything will come together. |
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Excerpt: Mack Schatzle and the Candies
Coco Ardoin was A Nice Girl. She loved animals and she kept her nails neatly trimmed, with pastel shades of nonchipped polish routinely applied at home. She donated money to orphans in third world countries and she shaved her legs every day, even when wearing pants.
People tended to want to point out to Coco that she was A Nice Girl. When they did this, she had an unsettling urge to gouge out their eyeballs (well, just one eyeball really, she didn’t want to completely blind them, that would be awful) with one of the bobby pins that held her light brown hair neatly in place away from her wide hazel eyes.
But Coco never did this, because she always sternly reminded herself (with an inward sigh) that Nice Girls do not gouge out eyeballs. And she was definitely was A Nice Girl.
Mack Schatzle specialized in Nice Girls. While he had no idea about Coco’s bobby pin aspirations, he would not have been surprised if she had told him. Nice, bitchy, easy, cold, sweet… they were all different flavored candy shells over the same gooey delectable girly center that he worshipped with the relish of a true connoisseur.
