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By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
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Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.
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He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he? Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. He promised not to.
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We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward
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It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli
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We're making a list. And checking it twice. Edward shook his head.
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