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Banally atrocious since 1984.

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    Progress Report February 2021: Short Month, Short Update

    February 27, 2021 /

    February went fast, didn’t it? So let’s do this fast, bullet-points style: Part 1 has been written, re-written, and is now done with the first round of edits. I’ve also gone through it a second time based on my editor’s feedback to iron out some details.  Part 2 has been written, re-written, and is now done with the first round of edits. My editor just finished giving me feedback and we’ve had some conversations about some proposed improvements/re-writes.  Part 3 has been written and now I’m re-writing it. I’m excited about this, because part 3 is typically where the protagonist reaches the midpoint of the story. In traditional story structure,…

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    Progress Report January 2021: New Year, Same Goals

    January 26, 2021 /

    I made a year-end goal!

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    Progress Report December 2020: All Because of COVID

    December 14, 2020 /

    Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but “I can’t believe this year is almost over.”

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Nina MacNamara

I’m an author, publisher, and podcaster. My books are Icarus and A Bitter Spring. I co-host the Pop Medieval podcast. I am the co-founder of Witan Publishing, an academic publishing company.

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New Novel 2022!

Watch this space for a title and summary!

A Bitter Spring

"It's like carrying around a backpack. It's heavy and it's on your shoulders. It hurts. It weighs you down."

Icarus

Man versus machine. Anarchy versus order. Power versus love.


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Latest Diary Posts

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Latest Essays

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    Home
    Oh, home, let me come home Home is wherever I'm with you – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
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    A Reminder or Two as Your Reproductive Rights are Stripped Away
    This isn't about us. Or them.
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    A Modern Woman Watches Porn for the First Time
    It goes about as well as you would expect. TW: discussion of sex, porn, feminism, and an anti-capitalist tirade.
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