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Marie Judson's books:
Fantasy
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Braided Dimensions Series
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Sci Fi
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Full book coming out in Spring of 2022
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Free Fantasy for Dark nights
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Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fantasy
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This promotion starts on February 01, 2022 and runs through February 28, 2022.
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Fantastic Realms Free Fantasy Reads - February Edition
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Genres: Romance / Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fantasy, and Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Urban Fantasy
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This promotion starts on February 01, 2022 and runs through February 28, 2022.
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Eternal Worlds
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Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fantasy and Young Adult / Fantasy
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This promotion starts on February 01, 2022 and runs through February 28, 2022.
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Fantastic Realms Free Fantasy Reads - February Edition
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Genres: Romance / Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fantasy, and Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Urban Fantasy
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This promotion starts on February 01, 2022 and runs through February 28, 2022.
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bookspry.com's Sci-fi Freebies (January-February)
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Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Science Fiction
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This promotion runs through February 15, 2022.
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Fantasy Authors, Unite!
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Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fantasy, and Young Adult / Fantasy
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This promotion runs through February 20, 2022.
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Mysterious Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance
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Genres: Mystery & Suspense / Paranormal, Romance / Paranormal, and Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Urban Fantasy
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This promotion runs through February 20, 2022.
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Fantasy Adventures
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Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Urban Fantasy, and Young Adult / Fantasy
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This promotion runs through February 16, 2022.
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From Marie Judson's blog:
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Supergirl
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I stumbled on this series which is not my typical choice. Well, sci fi is, but I don't often choose an American series unless it's Lucifer or Angel. Occasionally one like Pretty Little Liars draws me. The "girl" moniker, and stereotypically genderized outfit, could easily have driven me away. I mean, they don't call her adult cousin "Superboy." I suspected …
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What is your favorite scene in any of your books?
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Over time, the scene my mind goes back to with most relish is the medieval solstice faire. I loved crafting the journey there as well as the time at the faire. The events that immediately precede it are some of the most important in the series. I never broke down the factors that make it my favorite until yesterday, when …
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Talking to Readers
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Recently I posted about Anchor Bay campground and how Highway 1 loops around it in a horseshoe. Last night, I went to a house on a road that takes off from the base of that horseshoe. The home I visited was on a steep slope, the windows and balcony looking into redwoods, like a tree house. The woman I visited …
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How long do you spend researching before beginning a book?
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Being a writer of fantasy and science fiction, I don't research before starting a book. But I did a great deal of research during the writing of my fantasy series, Braided Dimensions. I wanted the details of medieval time to be accurate, while blending with what was possible if magic were present. That's what, I think, makes it feel grounded, …
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Pondering Vultures
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Recently I watched a large bird swooping across the vista visible from my sunporch, admiring its wingspan and flight angles. Recognizing the shape of its flight feathers as those of vultures and condors, I thought about recent posts on Instagram where people commented on amazing hawk or eagle sightings. It hit me that no one ever posts admiringly about having …
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Do you find it more challenging to write the first book in a series or the subsequent novels?
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The first part of the first book in my series was the hardest for me. Two-thirds of the way into it, the settings, characters, and conflicts had been fleshed out. Much description had been crafted so that pictures were in the readers' heads, and in mine. At that point, I found that I could jump into writing or reworking a …
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Do you view writing as a spiritual practice?
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In part, I do. Jung called depth psychology "psycho-spiritual" because he took into consideration the soul and spirit as involved with the psyche. When I was working on a Ph.D., I started doing free writes to limber up for dissertation writing, which I found daunting. This led to a daily journaling practice that I've never stopped. I also read a …
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Are there therapeutic benefits to modeling a character after someone you know?
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The most therapeutic benefit I derived from my first novel was modeling the main character after me, in some ways. At the time, I was recovering from a Ph.D. program that didn't turn out all that well. By shaping some aspects of my MC on my own life, I allowed myself to step into magical realms, out of my every …
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What was an experience where you learned that language had power?
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What comes to mind for me with this question is a discovery in early stages of my fiction writing. As I got past the messy and confusing first months of working on my first novel, I became aware that at times a single word added to a sentence could change the entire trajectory of the plot, or shift the mood, …
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Vampyre History
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As I pondered the question of my most recent blog post, regarding whether I want all the books I write to be connected, I stumbled upon a history of the vampire genre. I've long been a fan of Anne Rice, whose vampire chronicles are a good example of a long genre series. Most of her work does connect, even when …
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