A.L.Padden

Author Amy Lynn Padden loves history, folklore, and the sea.

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My Grammarly Report Card

I know it's silly.  My craft should be enough.  But sometimes it's awfully nice to get a little positive reinforcement.  Like being told I was more productive than 93% of Grammarly users and have a very unique vocabulary.  Wahoo awesome word count! It was just the pat on the back I needed to feel pleasantly

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I’m trending…

Or about to.  At least if the prediction from Nelson Literary Agency proves true.  I write the stories that speak to me and that I, as a reader, want to read and thought the pendulum might swing away from vampires and zombies to things more grounded in reality, like historical magical realism.  Looks like I

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Busy bee

I'm embracing my new title of author and, having finished writing, am working hard to finish my edits and get my novel out to agents.  (Then onto getting published!) When I work, I brew a pot of tea and settle in. I finished up the writing and after being a brutal editor (I deleted a

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