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dinosaur wrangler and magician
Created on 2002-09-10 18:19:58 (#700891), last updated 2009-11-06
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Basic Info| Name: | Tessa Gratton |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 11-08 |
| Location: | Lawrence, Kansas, United States |
| Website: | tessagratton.com |
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everflame@livejournal.com Bio
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a wizard or a paleontologist. But since I couldn't find anyone to teach me how to turn my neighbor into a frog and there isn't much call for dinosaur handlers these days, I just write about magic and monsters instead!
My debut YA novel, BLOOD MAGIC, will be released in the summer of 2011 from Random House Children's Books.
With talented writers Maggie Stiefvater and Brenna Yovanoff, I keep a fiction blog: The Merry Sisters of Fate!
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merry_fates We post weekly original fiction and occasionally run writing contests. There's always a healthy dose of angst, blood, and disfunction. Plus, occasionally vampires, zombies, and faeries. My website is tessagratton.com, but I do all of my blogging here on Livejournal.
"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we can just barely endure, and we admire it so because it calmly disdains to destroy us." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"Do I contradict myself? Well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes." ~ Walt Whitman
"I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I had written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own especial little death, regardless of any other thing I had ever done with or to myself." ~ Tanith Lee
"When I write it feels like I'm carving bone. It feels like I'm creating my own face, my own heart." ~ Gloria Anzaldua
"I am mad
but I choose this madness."
~ Gloria Anzaldua
"Cry when you cry, run when you run, love when you love. Represent the ashes that you leave behind." ~ Matchbox 20
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External Services:
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Schools:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Hogsmeade, Scotland - Highland, United KingdomUniversity of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH
University of Kansas - Lawrence, KS
University of Sunderland - Sunderland, England - Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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