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Step inside my storyteller’s workshop. Get exclusive first looks at excerpts, book art, early book updates, and the raw diary entries of a fantasy novelist bringing new worlds to life.

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Award-nominated author of THE FATED, a novel about a ship that ferries people to paradise every 16 years—until passengers go missing. *lives & breathes stories*

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