about me

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Words of wisdom from the great Mark Twain --
"The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter. It's the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug."



PLEASE NOTE: The Existence Game is Fiction. My MC, Alex, is not me. She's a fictitious character. I based some of the situations Alex finds herself in on situations in my life, and/or the lives of some of my friends, but this is not a memoir. Thanks for reading.


Reading time on Authonomy is limited, but I am trying to keep up as much as possible. I'm rarely leaving comments now as I tend to end up doing line-by-line editing and although I'm reading critically, I don't have the time to keep the copious notes I normally put together. If I put your book on my shelf, it's because I think it's a good book.



Bio.... I am 56, grew up in the D.C. metropolitan area (the backdrop for my novel). Happily married to a lovely musician, we have two wonderful, talented grown children. With the kids no longer living at home, our dogs and cats, Henry, Kevin, Buttercup and CatCat are really getting spoiled. When I'm not reading or writing, my passion is Aikido, a martial art that I used to train in before the kids came, and which I'm getting back into with great delight.

Wishing everyone a wonderful publishing deal.

Happy reading and writing,
Judy

favourite books

Too many to list --

A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
A Moment in Time by Jilaine Tarisa
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
A Spaniard in the Works, by John Lennon
Aikido and the Harmony of Nature by Mitsugi Saotome
Big Trouble, by Dave Barry
Black Women in White America, Edited by Gerda Lerner
Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart
Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther
Dibs In Search of Self, by Virginia Axline
Dune Series by Frank Herbert
Everything by Mark Twain
Everything by Noam Chomsky
Everything by Orson Scott Card
Everything by Viktor Frankl
Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson
Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend, by The Monks of New Skete
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg
In The Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and The American Civil War, by Alice Rains Trulock
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Mandatory Motherhood by Garrett Hardin
My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
Notes on an Orange Burial by Greg Levin
On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Reading Lolita In Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
Sam Campbell's Living Forest Series
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, by A.S. Neill
Sunflower by Cass McMain
The Ascent of Humanity, by Charles Eisenstein
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Tornor, by Elizabeth Lynn
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, by Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Darkover Series, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Fan Man, by William Kotzwinkle
The Fourth Way, by P.D. Ouspensky
The Heavenly Villiage, by Cynthia Rylant
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Henry and Mudge Series, by Cynthia Rylant
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Nine Princes of Amber, by Roger Zelazny
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, by Alexander McCall Smith
The Origin of Consciousness In The Break Down Of The Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes
The Oz Books by L. Frank Baum
The Pern Series, by Anne McCaffrey
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
The Qualities of Wood by Mary Vensel White
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, And The Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman
The Talk or Flirting with Dis Astar: An Underground Fairytale by Lockjaw Lipssealed
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, by Carlos Castaneda
The Tuzla Run by Robert Davidson
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Welcome to the Monkey House, The Sirens of Titan, and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut
Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, compiled by Paul Reps & Nyogen Senzaki
and a few others...

AUTHONOMY:

A few of my favorite titles in alphabetical order (because I have too many super-favorites) (I've only posted books I've read all the way through, or read all that has been posted):

A Noble Profession by Greg Levin
All of Dai Lowe's books
All of Alan Chaput's Savannah Series
Blue Flame by Michael Schmidt
Callie Chooses by Frances Kay
Every Atom Belonging by Dan McKinnis
Fortress for One by Mary Vensel White
From Under The Bed by Christina McClean
Ghost Warrior by Alan Marling
Ginger The Buddha Cat by Joe Kovacs
Happiness Matters by Fran Macilvey
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Buddha by Joe Kovacs
In Pieces by Geoffrey Mann
Line 'Em Up by Suzanne Adams
Little Krisna and the Bihar Boys by Barry Wenlock
Luminous Dark by Ross Clark
Mars by Anonymous 31062
Memories of Glory by Elizabeth Wolfe
My Life Without Me by Jaclyn Aurore
Peppermint by Keith Gilbey
Pinpoint by Sheila Mary Taylor
Pompey Chimes by David Ogilvie Grant
Rupee Millionaires by Joe Kovacs
Shadowolf by Gerard Mullan
The Doctor of Summitville by Bill Carrigan
The Girl From Ithica: Book One in the Sister Trilogy by Cherry Gregory
The Impeccable Editor's Guide to Writing (and Rewriting) by The Impeccable Editor
The Ladies of Low Arvie by Linda Watson
The Other Mr. Bax by Rodney Jones
The Very Best Childhood (previously My Hawaiian Memories: 1976 - 1981) by Billy McBride
Thoughts On Black Holes And River Gods by Lauren Hunter
To Kill a Dead Man by Dan D. Andreescu
Trapped by Fran Macilvey
Trees by Tova Benjamin
undo redo by David Breitling
Watch by Cass McMain
When Pride was Not an Option by David Turner
Wurzel of Clutton and Other People History Rightfully Forgot by George Fripley

my websites

http://www.theexistencegame.com