Signed Copy of Inanimate Objects by Kendra Saunders

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A signed copy of Inanimate Objects, by Kendra Saunders herself! It comes with glitter! And a note! And will even be signed by the cover model.

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My name is Kendra L. Saunders and I was born in the very hot landscape of east Texas to 
transplanted-Yankee parents. I spent years in the suburbs of Dallas/Fort Worth where it was too hot and 
too dangerous to play outside or explore. Instead, I learned the joy of reading books, making up stories to 
tell my parents and dreaming about exotic far off places like the rainforests of South America. By the age 
of seven I had already decided I wanted to be an author of novels. In second grade my school asked the 
students to dress up as what they wanted to be when they grew up, for Halloween. Amid ballerinas, 
astronauts, doctors and  marine biologists, I walked into school wearing my dressiest suit, carrying a 
briefcase in one hand and papers in the other. As if that wasn't weird enough, my first story assignment 
was about a woman sailing far from home. My teacher remarked I was the only student she'd seen that 
wrote about an adult.

I've stuck to that dream and that formula for all these years (though the briefcase has since disappeared).  
I carry ugly notebooks with me at all times (they should be ugly. Who wants to carry around a pretty 
notebook, when it will just be splashed upon, written in, abused, tossed around, torn and sat on?) and keep 
a running commentary on my life, times and strange mind.

Musicality and lyrics are some of my greatest creative inspirations.Professional credits:Kendra L. Saunders is the author of the magic realism novel Inanimate Objects and the dark comedy Death 
and Mr. Right. She has been published in Snakeskin Magazine, Premier Bride Magazine and has conducted 
interviews with goth rocker Aurelio Voltaire, NYT Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout and fashion 
designers Dmitry Sholokhov and Fabio Costa, among others, for Steampunk Magazine, The New England 
Horror Writers and ipmnation.com. She reports regularly for Pure Textuality and writes helpful writing 
articles for NerdCaliber's Pages of Note.

Kendra has attended a number of sci-fi/anime/steampunk conventions, notably Arisia, Anime Boson,Watch 
City Festival, ConnectiCon and TeslaCon. She is the creator of the popular "Five Headed Muse" panel, as 
well as the "What We Can Learn from Fan Fiction" panel. Kendra was also featured as a guest on other 
panels throughout 2012 and has been noted for her energy and enthusiastic approach to writing education.

She also has a lifelong passion for black and white photography and shares photographs from her travels 
and adventures through her website, facebook, tumblr and twitter.

Kendra is host of the quirky literary podcast, 13 1/2 Minutes and has been a featured guest and co-host on 
various radio and podcast shows.

In her spare time Kendra likes to daydream about (foreign) boys with dark hair, drink too much tea, read 
fashion magazines, listen to records on vinyl, plan her dream trip to England and attempt to travel back in 
time to the Jazz Age. Find her online at www.kendralsaunders.com on twitter at @kendrybird or on tumblr 
at http://www.inanimateobjects.tumblr.com

50 Page Critique from Bestselling Author RaShelle Workman

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A 50 page critique from bestselling author RaShelle Workman

RaShelle Workman is the bestselling author of the Dead Roses series ("Sleeping Roses" is being translated into Turkish, and will be available in print wherever Turkish books are sold in 2014), the Immortal Essence series, and the Blood and Snow series. She's sold over three hundred thousand copies of her novels worldwide in the past year, including Japan, Canada, and Europe. Her new adult novel, "Touching Melody" will be out June 2013. You can find RaShelle all over the web, but the best place to start is here.

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30 Minute Skype Chat with Carrie Harris

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A 30 minute skype chat with wildly popular and hilarious author, Carrie Harris

Author of Bad Taste in Boys, Bad Hair Day, and Bad Yeti

I was born in Chicago, but we moved to Ohio so fast that I suspect my Illinois residence doesn’t really count. It’s kind of like those people who say, “Yeah, I’ve been to NYC,” but what they really mean is they drove from one airport to the other and spent most of their time in the shuttle placing bets on which cab would get into an accident first. Not that I’ve done that.

My mom did a lot of word puzzles and read so much Agatha Christie that she could recite the books by heart. My dad worked with high tech plastics machinery. This may explain why I became a bibliophile. It definitely explains why I tackled my junior high science project with the help of one of the scientists who worked on the atom bomb.

In high school, I marched in the drum line and worked backstage in the theater. Both activities were really just excuses to meet hot geek boys. I followed my boyfriend to college, which was pretty stupid considering that I broke up with him the second week of school. That left me free to date another long string of hot geek boys and play a lot of euchre. In between dating and cards, I got a degree in English Literature but graduated with no plans whatsoever, so back to school I went. I ended up in a graduate program in Educational Statistics with no idea how the bleep that happened.

Then came the string of random jobs. First, I was a market research manager. Then I became an autopsy coordinator/statistician, which is probably the weirdest job combo in the history of the universe. Then I managed the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, which is the fancy title for the place that researches Mad Cow disease in humans. I spent a lot of time looking at brains there. That probably explains a lot.

But all that time, I wanted to be a writer. In between all the autopsies and mad cows, I did a bunch of spec work for roleplaying games and textbook companies, which is yet another weirdo combo. I loved it. And once my kids were born, I decided I had to take the plunge. I wrote a book about supernatural creatures. Because they’re awesome.

Now I live in Michigan with my husband, who is a ninja doctor (fer real), and three zombie obsessed children. The other moms at the bus stop think I’m very weird. I think this is a compliment.

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A Little Sneak Peek!

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A 30 minute skype chat with:

Carrie Harris

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