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<span style="font-size: large;">Elwood is a big, clunky, LOUD guy and he is extremely lonely. He does everything by himself and he desperately wants to make friends, especially with the birdies. He hears them chirping and sees them flitting here and there, having fun together. He truly wants to be their friend and part of their community. Every time a birdie swoops by and he yells "STAY", they freak out and fly quickly away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He tries many different things to befriend them: he hangs out on a tree branch, makes himself a faux wooden beak and sticks abandoned feathers all over himself, trying to blend in and belong. He builds his very own tree house to live in close proximity to them and then throws a huge housewarming party inviting them all to come. The birdies decline. He is heartbroken. Why? What is he doing so wrong that they will not accept him? As a last ditch effort he decides to build a birdie theme park complete with birdie snacks and a pool. That should make them like him for sure. Alas, once again they decline. No matter what he does he can't seem to fit in and make friends with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elwood, totally heartbroken, resigns himself to the fact that his dream will never come true so just gives up. He has nothing left to try or to give. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As he is laying face down in his misery, totally silent and still, a very strange thing begins to happen.... Elwood finally discovers why he repels the fragile little birdies? In his quiet reflective timeout the truth is finally revealed to him, one little birdie at a time, making Elwood a very, very happy and popular Bigfoot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love the bright, bold illustrations and the fact the Elwood's emotions are depicted perfectly. It is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Written in rhyme, this delightful book is the perfect choice for a bedtime cuddle. It is based on the 19th century tale by Hans Christian Anderson, <i>The Princess and the Pea,"</i> with a modern day twist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jacob takes these words to heart and strikes out to find the perfect match. He decides to hide a pea under a stack of mattresses and the true princess will be able to detect it unequivocally because of her keen sensitivity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Young hopefuls are dragged by family members from far and wide, hoping to be the princess that the prince longs for. Alas most are spurned until it comes time for Charlotte Divine to climb on top of those mattresses. She passes the test with flying colours - easy peasy - and is quickly escorted back to the castle to meet the charming prince. Is he smitten at first sight by Charlotte, fall to his knees and ask for her hand in marriage right then and there? Is this a "and they-lived-happily-ever-after tale" now... end of story? Not so fast...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Charlotte has a stipulation of her own before she will commit to the prince. It shocks those who attends to him... imagine a common girl asking such of thing of him. Did he oblige her and take on the challenge she proposes to him in order to allow him to propose to her? Did he pass HER test? You will have to read this wonderful little book to find out. You will smile as girl power prevails and the prince agrees to Charlotte's scrutiny. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The illustrations are so adorable. The colour palette perfect for a princess and the message of equality in a relationship is very relevant for today's young reader. I highly recommend <i>"Princess Charlotte and the Pea."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">For years I have wanted to do what I am doing now -- writing and illustrating my </span><strong style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">children's books</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">. Electronic drawing pads and e-books have made it possible for me to create and publish my own books -- and do so in quantity. In the past </span><strong style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">Harcourt Brace, Ten Speed Press, Thomas Nelson</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"> had only published a few.</span><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">The books were always squeezed in between art I needed to do to fill 26 Sally Huss Galleries (my degree was from USC in Fine Art); and licensing demands for </span><strong style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">clothing, greeting cards (American Greetings), purses, bibs, dinnerware, wallpaper</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">; and the daily </span><strong style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">King Features Syndicated inspirational panel</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"> I do for newspapers called </span><em style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">Happy Musings</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">. </span><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">Through the years my art and writings have found their way into homes from Hollywood to The White House and perhaps even your house or your mother's. </span><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">Along with art, I have had a long history with tennis. In fact I was raised to be a champion (</span><strong style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">U.S. Junior and Wimbledon Champion, then a semi-finalist in the women's division at Wimbledon</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">in singles and doubles). Later I became one of the top senior players in the country. This experience lead to my writing and illustrating a couple of books on the game -- </span><strong style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">EIGHT GOLDEN RULES FOR HOW TO PLAY YOUR BEST TENNIS (endorsed by Billie Jean King, Mary Carrillo, Dick Enberg, etc.) and LOVE LADIES LEAGUE TENNIS</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">I mostly read the books of the French Philosopher Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov. For me, these present the clearest and most practical explanation of life and man's structure in it that I've come across. These light-filled pages send my heart soaring and give me food for my present work.</span><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">Presently I write, illustrate and paint in my Fallbrook, California studio where I live with my husband Marv on the </span><strong style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">art ranch of Jerome Gastaldi</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"> (</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWkQnQpDLNQ" rel="nofollow" style="color: #666600; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWkQnQ...</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;">.) I also still play a bit of tennis and walk the hills daily.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He adorns his glasses and studiously browses her cards... A to Z. Each card has an imprint of the an alphabet letter, a word beginning with that letter and a fabulous illustration to visually enhance the two. But wait? Something is amiss. Panda makes a sad discovery. The pandas are missing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Penelope Taberner Cameron is a frail little girl who loves to read and to dream. Because of her ill health and the fact that she is relying far too much on her imagination for companionship and entertainment her concerned mother decides to ship her and her siblings off from London to her aunt and uncle's farm where hopefully she will gain her strength back and get a new perspective on life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The children are warmly greeted by those who reside at Thackers, an historical farm estate which is totally self-contained and extremely isolated. It is located in Derbyshire. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once there, Penelope finds herself entangled in the world of time travel...being able to transport herself from the present time back into Elizabethan times. Penelope assimilates with the family she encounters there and knows the dangers they are in as they plan to free Mary, Queen of Scots, from the location in which she is incarcerated, due to the edict of the reigning Queen, Queen Elizabeth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This story will delight all ages and the characters penned are so convincing, the plot so enthralling, and the descriptions of 16th century life so very vivid you will be engaged in the story from the very first page right until the last word. Beautifully written with flowing descriptive language this lovely book is a keeper. A book you will definitely want to add to your classic collection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Alison Uttley (1884–1976) was born Alice Jane Taylor in Derbyshire, England, into a tenant-farming family that had lived on the same land for two hundred years. Uttley would return to the Derbyshire landscape and the house she grew up in, Castle Top Farm, in many of her books, including <i>A Traveller in Time</i>. A bright scholarship student throughout her childhood, Uttley went on to Manchester University, and in 1906 became the second female student to graduate with honors in physics from the university. Marriage and motherhood put an end to her teaching career, and it was only after her son, John, began school that she published her first book, <i>The Squirrel</i>, <i>the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit</i> (1929). Uttley’s husband died the next year, and she began publishing books at a rapid rate in order to support herself and her son. Among her works are naturalistic novels of youth, adventure tales, and a cookbook, as well as books that grew out of her belief in enchantment, time travel, and the supernatural. By the end of her life, Uttley had written some one hundred books of fiction and nonfiction, including thirty in the Little Grey Rabbit series, and become one of twentieth-century Britain’s most popular children’s writers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Working as a features editor, being a solo mom to four and keeping a collection of cats plus one dog -- it's all part of Annie Oeth's day, all day, every day. "Because I Said So: Life in The Mom Zone" from Sartoris Literary Group,gives you a big slice of laughter and love with a few tears along the way, all written from Annie's world. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">A lifelong Mississippian, Annie Oeth is a graduate of Mississippi University for Women and Kaplan University who counts life as the best educator of all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><i>"Annie Oeth’s Living On Love is the kind of down-home sass that every kitchen needs. Oeth chats with the reader in a way that feels like a front porch setting and uses cooking as a love language, reaching straight to the heart of the reader. The best part about this book is the lengthy list of recipes that make your stomach growl, but don’t take a bite out of your pocketbook." —Hannah and Caroline Melby of the band, Hanalena, authors of "Recipes and Road Stories" </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This great book is educational, humorous, witty and a confessional at times from the author. She totally gets that life is busy, money can be short, and that with some wisdom of buying and preparing food you don't have to relinquish flavour and time and become disheartened with your meals. She understands that people have many more things going on in their lives beside worrying and fretting about food. She continually highlights the importance of savoury food and limited time schedules, togetherness with your family and fellowship around your table. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She offers tips to get you started on your unique journey. She states you cannot compare your haute cuisine to anyone else's but to...your own! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<i>Living on Love" </i>is full of simple, tasty recipes and Oeth documents not only the approximate cost of each meal to be prepared but also the time it takes to put that meal together. The great news is that most of the meals cost less than $10 and take less than 30 minutes to prepare or cook. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This charming tale is about a curious little bird named Honey who lives in </span><span style="font-size: large;">Australia. She loves to people watch as they scurry to and fro leading very exciting lives (or so she thinks). One day Honey lands on a window sill, peers through the window and sees a family cuddling together on a couch watching a super hero fight crime and help people in trouble. Right then and there she decides that's exactly what she wants to do because everyone loves a hero. She creates a costume for herself and says:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She first flies across the Outback and spots a kangaroo stuck in a giant puddle of mud. She wants to rescue him but finds he has a purpose for being in that mud and Honey just swooped in and wrecked all his fun. Oh my!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next she comes across Mr. Anteater who is very, very hungry because the ants are hiding from him. Honey tries to help him out but oh dear she seems to make matters even worse if that is even possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mrs. Koala is pining for her joey whose time had come to be independent and leave his mom. Honey tries to be the joey's substitute and crawls inside of Mrs. Koala's pouch and snuggles down in. However, her attempt to cheer the heartbroken mother fails and causes the other koala bears to mock and taunt Mrs. Koala, embarassing her profoundly and making her feel even worse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's exactly what happens. The perfect scenario arises to make a true superhero out of Honey. She does not hesitate when she hears the call and she becomes the champion she longs to be making everyone around her proud and her heart very happy indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Emlyn Chand emerged from the womb with a fountain pen clutched in her left hand-and that's totally a true story. When she's not writing, Emlyn runs her very own marketing company and tends to her in-home zoo of three dogs, five parrots, and even a human daughter named Phoenix.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Connect with her at <span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>www.EmlynChand.com/kids</b></span>. Make sure to check out he pet Ducky's blog while you're there.!</span><br />
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<span id="freeTextContainerauthor1605467"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sarah Shaw has a BFA in Sequential Art–a perfect mix of great storytelling and drawing. Also a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, she recognizes a good story when she sees it, and enjoys bringing them to life in her art. Her favorite part of drawing is fueling the emotion, attitude, and thoughts of a character or scene, whether it be sketch or finished illustration. She focuses in the digital medium, and is also an aspiring writer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #181818;">Contact me at </span><span style="color: #674ea7;">storywrapsblog@gmail.com</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">The Book Bar</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> everyone. Something different today for you to enjoy....Grab a drink and scoot over to the </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Gossip Lounge</span></i><i> </i><span style="font-size: large;">to hang out with your friends or to go make some new ones. I got some "juicies" to share with you all!! Enjoy your stay...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Forbes</span> put a list together ranking this year's top ten authors and what they earned. Fascinating. Let the countdown begin...</span><br />
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<i>The Girl on The Train </i>is one of the most successful books of the year and has already been on the <i>New York Times</i> best seller’s list for 23 weeks since its release in January. Compared to Gillian Flynn’s <i>Gone Girl, </i>the plot similarly pivots on suburban psychosis and focuses on one girl’s disappearance, leaving readers to figure out what happened with three very untrustworthy narrators telling their perspective.</div>
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Praised by everyone from <a href="https://twitter.com/rwitherspoon/status/575296881862930434">Reese Witherspoon</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/559683663810797568">Stephen King</a>, it’s the one book everyone seems to be talking about this summer. Here are 13 facts about the runaway best seller.</div>
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1. The author, Paula Hawkins, was almost broke when she sent the unfinished manuscript with just 45,000 words to a publisher.</div>
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“I couldn’t afford to wait until I finished the book to get a deal. I needed some sort of income, and my agent thought the first half (of the book) was very strong. ‘<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594633665/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1594633665&linkCode=as2&tag=thougcatal0c-20&linkId=OGVWFVDI4MGIHGIE">The Girl on the Train</a>’ was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer,” she said.</div>
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2. It’s the fastest-selling adult novel in history.</div>
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The book has sold more than two million copies in the U.S. alone since it was published in January.</div>
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3. The book has already been optioned as a movie.</div>
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DreamWorks Studios bought the rights for movie adaptation and Marc Platt is set to direct it. Although the author is excited, she’s trying to take it all in stride.</div>
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“It’s very exciting, yet I’m trying to not be too excited,” she <a href="http://bookpage.com/interviews/17574-paula-hawkins#.VZD0lxNViko">said</a>. “These things take a really long time. It could be years, it may not happen. It feels unreal.”</div>
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Emily Blunt is in talks with DreamWorks to star in the film.</div>
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3. The author came up with the storyline while on her own commute.</div>
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“When I first moved to London and started commuting into the centre, the bits of the journey I loved most were when the train ran close enough to houses so that I could see right into people’s living rooms. I always found it gave me a feeling of connection, most strongly when you actually saw a person in there, making their morning tea or reading the paper. I never saw anything out of the ordinary, but I did start to wonder what would happen if I did: what would I do if I saw something shocking or frightening? That’s where the germ of the idea came about, but it was only much later, when I had the character of Rachel walking around in my head, that I started to think about how someone like her, lonely and damaged as she is, might react if she saw something strange on her daily commute, and I found that a whole world of possibility opened up,” she <a href="https://booksandreviews.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/exclusive-interview-with-paula-hawkins-author-of-the-girl-on-the-train/">said</a>.</div>
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4. The word ‘girl’ was used in the book’s working title long before “Gone Girl” ever became a hit.</div>
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“The Woman on the Train just didn’t sound as good. I’ll take care next time not to have girl in the title,” she told <i>The </i><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/21/the-girl-on-the-train-paula-hawkins-new-gone-girl-female-thriller-authors-gillian-flynn"><i>Guardian</i></a>. She knows the main character, Rachel, a 30-something, is “not a girl, but I do call people girls all the time – I refer to myself as a girl and I’m in my 40s”.</div>
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5. Before she wrote <i>The Girl On The Train</i>, Hawkins wrote several books under a pen name.</div>
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Under a pen name she published four novels – <i>Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista, All I Want for Christmas, One Minute to Midnight and The Reunion </i>– although none of them garnered much success. Hawkins said with each one she wrote, their stories became darker and darker until she realized romantic fiction wasn’t really her.</div>
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“The last one has loads of terrible things happening in it and ended up being rather tragic in a lot of ways,” says Hawkins with a laugh. “Nobody bought it.”</div>
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6. None of the characters are actually based on anyone in the author’s life.</div>
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In interviews Hawkins regularly gets asked if the book is based on anyone she knows but she insists they aren’t.</div>
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“There are small bits of me in all the women in <i>The Girl on the Train</i>(and possibly in a couple of the men, too). But the main the characters are works of the imagination,” she <a href="http://www.writersbone.com/interviewsarchive/2015/1/20/author-on-the-rise-9-questions-with-paula-hawkins">said.</a></div>
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7. Critics often compare Hawkin’s novel<i> </i>to last year’s successful psychological thriller <i>Gone Girl,</i> but she isn’t sure if this would happen if both books were written by men.</div>
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“I don’t know if this would have happened if the book had been written by the man. I don’t know if those same types of comparisons are made for books written by men. Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it’s not just in crime, is it? Women’s fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There’s no male equivalent.”</div>
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8. While doing research for the book, the author <a href="http://time.com/3665837/paula-hawkins-girl-on-the-train-gone-girl/">studied</a> the way alcohol affects memory to better understand the way her characters would behave.</div>
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“I have read about it, and the thing about blackouts is, there still is quite a lot about blackouts induced by alcohol use that I think we just don’t know. It’s not completely understood why some people get them and other people don’t. That’s as far as I understand— there are probably scientists who will tell me I’m wrong. [laughs]”</div>
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“But it was quite useful to me because I could have parts where she does remember things and parts where she doesn’t. Also memory loss can be affected by a host of other things as well like a traumatic incident or a blow to the head. So the blackout is a useful device for the thriller writer, but there are obviously other factors at play when it comes to memory.”</div>
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9. Hawkins worked as a financial journalist prior to being a novelist.</div>
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“I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages,” she said. Throughout the 90s she focused on writing about Eastern Europe then joined the Times, where she worked until 2004 before going freelance.</div>
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10. The book is inspired by the author’s love for all things Hitchcock.</div>
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“I was going for a slightly Hitchcock-style atmosphere. I did want that feeling of paranoia, self-doubt, suspicion. In that movie [“The Lady Vanishes”], everyone thinks that woman is making things up, and I wanted this book to have a similar sense. You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn’t happen at all if they’re told them enough times.</div>
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11. In creating the narrative, Hawkins wanted to write a crime novel that looked at what happened from the victim’s perspective.</div>
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“The stranger lurking in the dark alleyway or the man who breaks into the house are the stuff of nightmares, but in reality most victims of violence are attacked by someone they know, often in their own home, and that for me holds its own particular terrors, because you are talking about the place in which you are supposed to be safest, and the people in whom you are supposed to place your trust, ” she <a href="https://booksandreviews.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/exclusive-interview-with-paula-hawkins-author-of-the-girl-on-the-train/">said</a>.</div>
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“For example, we are told by politicians and other commentators that ‘stranger rape’ is so much worse for the victim than ‘date rape’, but this ignores the fact that an attack in the home, by someone you know, can be every bit as brutal and terrifying as an attack by a stranger, and it involves a devastating betrayal of trust.”</div>
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12. The book was almost written solely in Rachel’s POV.</div>
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In an interview with <i>TIME</i>, Hawkins <a href="http://time.com/3665837/paula-hawkins-girl-on-the-train-gone-girl/">said</a>, “I actually started out just writing from Rachel’s perspective, but I thought that I needed to get inside Megan’s head as well, so I introduced her. Then, later on, I decided to write from three. For me, a lot of the book is about perceptions of people and how they change and how they can be completely off. So I think it was interesting to see these women all looking at each other and the men in their lives and make judgments. And then we can see it from somebody else’s viewpoint, and we can really understand the assumptions that are being made and the preconceptions that different people have.”</div>
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13. The author is already working on a follow up, a Gothic-tinged psychological thriller about sisters set in Northern England that will be released next summer.</div>
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“It’s about the relationship between two sisters and memory is a strong theme,’ she <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/runaway-success-paula-hawkins-author-of-the-girl-on-the-train-portraits-by-pal-hansen-10133029.html">revealed</a>. “The way we create memories is so unreliable that it’s possible to retain completely false memories of your childhood.”</div>
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Like <i>The Girl On The Train</i>, the book will also be an unconventional crime novel.</div>
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“There doesn’t always need to be a killing in it,” Hawkins said. “But there’s an atmosphere of menace that infects the everyday.” </div>
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