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Somewhere in south-central England.

I have just picked up the latest two Carl Hiaasen novels. I love his books, they give a great flavour of Florida (I know it's exaggerrated.)

Are there any American authors who may have done for other states what Carl Hiaasen has done for Florida?

I'm writing a load of fiction. My latest story starts here... This is the index of all the stories...

We're not very big on official rules. Rules lead to people looking for loopholes. What's here is about it. 
   
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Minnesota

Stephen King for Maine?

Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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Somewhere in south-central England.

Good pick. I have a lot of his.

Sara Paretsky for Chicago/Illinois?

I'm writing a load of fiction. My latest story starts here... This is the index of all the stories...

We're not very big on official rules. Rules lead to people looking for loopholes. What's here is about it. 
   
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Incorporating Wet-Blending






Glendale, AZ

Dean Koontz Bases a lot of his Books in Southern California.

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John Stienback

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The Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

Cormac McCarthy for Texas.

2 - The hobbiest - The guy who likes the minis for what they are, loves playing with painted armies, using offical mini's in a friendly setting. Wants to play on boards with good terrain.
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More people have more rights now. Suck it.- Polonius
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The great state of Florida

Edgar Allen Poe - Virginia
William Faulkner - Mississippi
Ernest Hemingway - Michigan
Stephen King - Florida

Let the Galaxy Burn


...errata aren't rules, they are corrections of typos.
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WAIT. There are americans that read?
i thought we just listen to books on a i-pods

-to many points to bother to count.
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Bah, can't stand ebooks. I've grown past having books read to me when I got past kindergarten. LOL.

My ipod is for metal and rock, not books or edumacational materials (see what I did done doos there)?


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John Saul is a good one, resident of Cali, Hawaii part time.

His new book is out in October, looks good too.

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