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Thomm Quackenbush

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Thomm Quackenbush is an author and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has published four novels in his Night's Dream series (We Shadows, Danse Macabre, Artificial Gods, and Flies to Wanton Boys). He has sold jewelry in Renaissance England, confused as a mad scientist, filed away ten thousand books, and tried to educate the learning disabled, adjudicated, and gifted.

He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. He finds that friends do not enjoy the extremes he goes to in order to research books, as these involve mortuaries and UFO support groups.

He is available for panels and talks about writing, aliens, mysteries, and murder. He is even available for panels on writing mysteries about murderin
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Thomm Quackenbush I got the idea for Artificial Gods because I grew up about an hour away from Pine Bush, New York, where the story is set. Jasmine Woods was a minor ch…moreI got the idea for Artificial Gods because I grew up about an hour away from Pine Bush, New York, where the story is set. Jasmine Woods was a minor character in We Shadows and Danse Macabre, so I thought I would flesh her out a bit more and explore the mystery of the UFO flap that involved Pine Bush. I went to several meetings of the United Friends Observer Society to get material, which definitely helped to shape the story. (less)
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We Shadows (Night's Dream, #1)

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Dear Satan

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Of Christmas Present

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Roselyn had promised Arden a murder documentary to decompress from yoga. The presence of a cursed swordsman with a mechanical rig would not interfere. She gathered her cards back into their case, wished Shane and Steven luck in breaking his curse, hugged Clive in a more than perfunctory way, and booted the latter three from Roselyn's apartment. Whi

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Unlike the author, I do not think the idea of a post-apocalyptic romantic comedy is bizarre beyond imagining. It seems like two great tastes that could complement each other well, if a skilled chef were to combine them.

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Thomm Quackenbush is 71% done with Dating After the End of the World: 3) You do not hold a sword out from your body like you would a gun. Those are very different weapons that would require very different grips. Holding a sword like a gun will result in you dropping the sword.

4) Your "enemy-to-lover" plot is tedious.
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Sorry, but this is charmless. The premise could be good in other hands, but the execution is so weak that I just couldn't care about the characters. One can write epic silliness well (Adams and Pratchett made careers of it), but one needs to have som ...more
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What this book needs most is a detangler (or maybe even a relaxer), as the "science" of "time travel" here is twisty in a way that knots. That said, it is an innovative way to cut through talk of paradoxes. Mare has shaped their characters into a ser ...more
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* Some of Schwab's phrasing is often rapturously ornate. There are lines where I had to pause to take them apart to observe their construction.
* Some compelling characters
* Reminiscent of some of the better Anne Rice
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“She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration of her emotion, some way to be in control of a body that could toss her about with seizures. It was borderline artistic to mark her body, chiaroscuro designs in blood. Dying is the last thing she would want, like any healthy organism. A little pain, a small invoked sting trailing her arm, brought her much closer to grounded when she could not keep her head from racing, her thoughts from consuming her with obsession. An ounce of liquid weight loss and she could go back to being herself again. Usually.”
Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre

“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.”
Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl's kisses are deliberate and polished. When she kisses me - when I kiss her - she doesn't want me. She has me and knows it.”
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“I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.”
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“I think it simply comes down to fantasy being the language I speak. While I cannot get into epic sword and sorcery, I see the world as having the potential to be slightly off-kilter. I have run into people who do not quite seem human – though of course they are – and have been privy to coincidences that almost make me believe in magic. Fantasy is sometimes just asking yourself, “Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?”
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“Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists... So, I chose to believe in magic.”
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“College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity.”
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“Reason had no place to crash once Emotion came to town.”
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