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about me
Born close to the equator in Kenya I seem to have been moving northwards ever since; I am now living in Finland. Next stop the Arctic Circle!
Writing is a hobby (language editing academic papers is my fourth and hopefully last career).
There is still no obligation to read anything I have written before asking me to read yours :-)
NB! I am currently language editing a 75,000 word Doctoral Thesis with a 6-week deadline so I am unavailable for critiques until early April 2009.
'e lin' began with setting two parameters for myself: (1) don't copycat (2) avoid as many of the core icons of the fantasy genre as possible.
Given the saturation of the genre this seemed and still seems genuinely difficult to achieve.
favourite books
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
Tolkien - The Hobbit
Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia
Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Moon
Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
my websites
http://elin-on-vide.pbwiki.com
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